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The dormitory director is scheduled to be arraigned in court today regarding the dormitory fire.Photo/Print
The dormitory manager of St. John's Girls' High School in Kaloleni, Kilifi County has been arrested on suspicion of setting the dormitory on fire just one month after school reopened.
OB No. 27, dated January 1 and obtained by People Daily, states that 43-year-old Irene Kelbo Mauti was captured on surveillance cameras entering the dormitory at 9:07 p.m. .
OB also indicates that she was recaptured running away from the dormitory at 9:12 p.m. “After nearly five minutes of her stay in the dorm, and less than two minutes after she left, the inferno was seen engulfing the upper floors of the Ergon dorm,” the alumni wrote. .
He was arraigned today
She is currently detained at Karoleni Police Station and is expected to be arraigned at Karoleni Court today.
A police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said an investigation was continuing to determine whether more staff were involved.
“The investigation is still ongoing. All those involved will be dealt with with full force of law. We will not entertain such individuals in our school,” the source said.
Kilifi County Superintendent Veronica Kalungu has ordered the management to close the school indefinitely following the inferno.
The fire gutted the upper floors of the dormitory while students were participating in nighttime preparations.
Meanwhile, a dormitory at Mariakani Junior High School in Karoleni sub-county was gutted by fire.
A Mississippi dormitory was burned Saturday night.
The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
