Garbatulla Secondary School

Garbatulla high school was once a shining light and an academic giant in Kenya ... As a national school, a status that it has since lost, Garbatulla was an attraction to many high achieving students from the country despite its location in the remote and punishing semi-arid county of Isiolo. Yet over the years, the school's name has fizzled from the national limelight and it had even to close for two years before it was to re-opened in the diminished statues of a district school. So just what went wrong for Garbatulla and what does the future hold for this once-prestigious institution? Franklin Macharia reports