The Plight Of Garbatula High School

In its days of glory, it used to rival the likes of the Alliance, Starehe Boys and Mangu as a prestigious national school famed for academic excellence. But today, Garbatula High school in Isiolo County is a miserable education outpost that only attracts a handful of students largely drawn from neighbouring villages. So drastic have fortunes changed for the school that residents now regard it as a waste of the very land it occupies! They want it shut down and the land put to better use. Michael Njenga has returned from Isiolo with the following report.