Drama was witnessed outside Hillside Endarasha Academy after several protesters gathered around the school in a push to demand answers over viral claims of missing children.
According to reports, police and few villagers who were allegedly paid by the Hillside Endarasha school management blocked protesters by mounting roadblocks along major routes leading to the school.
The first Roadblock was erected at Blue Post area on Thika Superhighway and after protesters found altermative routes to the school, individuals suspected to be paid threatened to burn vehicles carrying the protesters to the school.
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“We are about 100 meters from the school, but there’s a car parked across the road blocking access. They have also threatened to burn cars that force their way to the school,” one social media user Njoki Njanja posted on her X handle.
However, despite the drama between the protesters, activists and locals, they managed to proceed and reached the school gate where they found more police officers who denied them access to the school compound.
In videos circulating on social media, the situation outside the Hillside Endarasha Academy gate remain tense as more speculations on what the school is hiding continue to surround the institution.
This comes days after Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua revealed that the whereabouts of 70 children after the Hillside Endarasha fire tragedy remain unknown. Despite the government saying all pupils have been accounted for, a cloud of suspicion remain high.
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The latest march to Endarasha was sparked by an online controversy that revealed that the missing kids might have been trafficked to Uganda, pushing protesters to drive all the way to the school to seek answers on the suspected missing kids.