Magoha clarifies comment on 'having gay students out of boarding schools'

He says homosexuals should engage in such activities away from school.

• He denied having directed schools to expel gay students from boarding schools and send them to day schools.

Education CS George Magoha
Education CS George Magoha
Image: Jack Owuor

Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has explained what he meant by a comment on having gay students out of boarding schools. 

According to the CS, a comment he made in January was taken out of context. 

He denied having directed schools to expel gay students from boarding schools and send them to day schools.

Now, the CS says only invasive homosexuals shall be expelled from boarding schools. 

"If you want to hop from one bed to another, then you need to be released to go to a day school where you'll be closer to your parents who are your first responsibility," he said. 

He further explained that the Ministry has no problem with gay students as long as they engage outside learning institutions. 

"We have no problems with homosexuals who do their business out in the streets, but if you are like the ones we have found, you move from one bed to another, we have proclaimed that those ones shall be day scholars," he said.

Last month, members of the LGBTQ community held a protest in Nairobi to rebuke an earlier statement from the CS. 

They termed it as an attack against gay students and infringement on their rights to access education.

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