Precious Talents School owner Moses Wainaina arrested after DPP Noordin Haji & DCI George Kinoti visited the institution

Precious Talents School owner arrested after DPP Haji & DCI Kinoti's Visit

Mumbi Mutuko

September 27, 2019 8:16 AM

In jail

Precious Talents School owner arrested after DPP Haji & DCI Kinoti's Visit 1

Precious Talents School owner Moses Wainaina was arrested on Thursday after DPP Noordin Haji and DCI George Kinoti visited the institution.

Wainaina was detained at Kabete Police Station pending arraignment in court on Friday.

DPP Haji and DCI Kinoti visited the scene of the 2-storey structure at Precious Talents School for fact-finding.

A statement from the ODPP stated: "DPP Noordin Haji accompanied by @DCI_Kenya George Kinoti today visited Precious Talents School, Dagoretti which collapsed for fact finding & prosecution guided investigations."

People looking inside a collapsed classroom at Precious Talent Academy Pulse Live Kenya

Transfer of pupils

Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha closed down the school after the tragedy that left eight pupils dead and 64 others injured.

Magoha closed Precious Talents Top School in Dagoretti and Pama Academy in Kangemi and ordered the affected pupils distributed to public schools.

He said that the findings of a task force, established to compile a report on the tragedy at Precious Talents Top School that claimed the lives of eight pupils, will be handed to the DCI for further investigation and possible prosecution.

Mumbi Mutuko