Let schoolgirls wear miniskirts – Mutula

On Monday, learning at Rwathia Girls Secondary School in Kangema district was disrupted after students went on strike demanding to wear miniskirts.

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 19 – Education Minister Mutula Kilonzo has come out in defence of demands by schoolgirls that they be allowed to wear miniskirts.

He said that the reaction was a manifestation that the education sector was still being governed by outdated rules and regulations.

“I am in total agreement with them (students). Why do you dress a schoolgirl like a nun? These girls do not want to be nuns; they want to be modern like Mutula!” said Kilonzo.

On Monday last week, learning at Rwathia Girls Secondary School in Kangema district was disrupted after students went on strike demanding to wear miniskirts.

Kilonzo said that the ministry was in the process of changing the Education Act that has been in force since 1968.

The minister who spoke at Chelilis Girls High School, in Bureti during the District Education Day however cautioned students not to resort to strikes whenever they need issues affecting them to be addressed.

“We will make smart uniforms but if you do not like the uniform do not break the windows or someone’s legs; talk to us we will look into it,” said the minister.

Kilonzo said that the government will employ 20,000 teachers this financial year. He revealed that teachers employed by the school Board of Governors shall be given priority during the teachers’ recruitment.

He insisted that the government should comply with the order of the High Court in Nakuru that requires the government to pay pension to retired teachers.

The over 52,000 former teachers are demanding their accrued pension from 1997 to 2012 totalling Sh34 billion.

LORDRICK MAYABI

Lordrick is a graduate of the University of Nairobi with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. He is passionate about political and governance issues. He also takes keen interest in human rights matters, justice and is fond of sports.

  • Jonathanmutie

    Mutula has been fearless, forthright and dead right most of the time, but what he said about schools girls and miniskirts barely conceals recklessness. What is the standard length of a miniskirt, Mr minister? And what value can this thing add to the learning process?

  • clean

    Kenya’s
    Chief Justice wears earrings. What is wrong with school girls wearing
    mini-skirts?

  • Mr. James

    I am a teacher at Rwathia Girls. Mutula will make us start admiring these girls. And from today, I’ll make sure I play sex each an every day with a different girl. Ili nilipishe kisasi.

  • steve

    Why I hate Mini-Skirts with school girls – True story

  • steve

    Why I hate
    Mini-Skirts with school girls – True story

    I remember after High school while waiting for my KCSE
    results, I was contracted to carry out holiday coaching in a mixed school near
    my home.

    In Form two, there were these two girls from averagely rich
    families who started tempting me a lot.

    They always sat in the front row of the classroom. More
    badly, they used to sit clumsily and sloppily without hiding their
    unforeseeable when I was teaching them. At my age, I did not understand why
    they were doing that and always asked myself if they were really doing the same
    to other male teachers.

    One day after anguishing in trouble, I asked them separately
    and kindly to sit at the back or they wear long skirts. They bucked proudly
    that they won’t do either of the options I gave them. I had no options except
    to advice them to then sit properly wherever I am in class. We agreed that I
    will rouse them any time I see them violating that conformity.

    One of them tricked me and wanted to provoke me instead. She
    approached me outside the school office and requested if I could assist her
    with some remedial and counteractive lessons at games time each day (for a pay
    of course). I admitted generously without knowing what she had in mind.

    The first lesson went on well without any suggestive
    indication that I was in a hot soup with this perilous girl.

    The second day, she came with a much shorter skirt and sited
    closer to me than the previous day. As I was taking her through Mole Concept
    equations in Chemistry, she slowly placed her soft hand on my laps. Since we
    were the two of us that time, I almost shouted at her asking her to stop
    whatever she was trying to do.

    She stopped but clicked at me in skepticism and discontent.
    She walked away from my class without uttering a word. I had nothing to do.

    She approached me the following day at break time and
    apologized for her misconduct the previous day. We agreed to meet again that
    evening.

    That evening, she came much more jovial with gratification to
    accomplish her mission. We did not cover much that evening before she told me on
    the eye what she was feeling and what she was up to. She said I quote “I
    have been looking for an opportunity to be closer to you and feel your warmth
    and endearing smell”. I laughed shyly. I did not understand why she could
    say that. I however composed and collected myself later on and said “NO” to
    her. I told her it is not right to engage in such interactions and affairs
    while in school. And at her age, I said NO.

    Do you know what happened thereafter? …….

    Guess! Surprisingly, she fell on my chest and hugged me as
    she begged me to listen to her feelings. I was furiously infuriated and threw
    her off my arms else she could put me in a nuisance situation.

    She sobbed and cried as she walked out of me and away from
    the office.

    Do you know what she told her classmates after that????
    Guess! That I was seducing her and wanted her deficiently and that she refused;
    that I tried to force a kiss into her mouth that she decided to run away from
    our lessons.

    I had the most disastrous day the following day.

    Every student was laughing at me when I went to their class.
    Everybody in the whole school was give that false story about what had
    transpired in the office. And they believed it. I hated myself for what I never
    did. I hated being a teacher in any of the girls’ school.

    I hate Mini-skirts particularly in schools. Let’s not
    pretend that what Mutula Kilonzo is trying to tell us is going to work for male
    teachers. He is a lawyer and only deals with mature women whose libido has gone
    down.