On Monday morning, Lillian Moraa woke her son, Moses Joseph, for school as she always did. He was in Grade Eight at Moi Primary and Junior School. She says he was well. He dressed. He left home. By afternoon, he was dead.
“I woke him up in the morning and the strong tea was ready. He dressed and left,” Ms Moraa said quietly, recalling the last moments she saw her son alive. Hours later, she received a call that would unravel her family’s world.
According to officials at Nakuru Level Five Hospital, teachers brought the boy to the facility. He was already dead on arrival. Doctors confirmed the death and advised the teachers to leave the body in the mortuary and return with a formal police notification, as procedure requires. But before that process could unfold, the boy’s parents arrived.
In a scene that stunned onlookers, they wheeled their son’s body out of the hospital on a trolley. They took him back to the school compound. Word spread quickly. A crowd gathered. Grief turned to anger.
For more than an hour, the body lay within the school grounds as police officers tried to calm an increasingly emotional group of parents and residents. Some demanded immediate answers from the school administration. Others wept openly.
“We just want to know what happened,” one parent said at the scene. “How does a child leave home healthy and end up dead in school?”
The body was later returned to Nakuru Level Five Hospital under police escort. Officers have not publicly disclosed the suspected cause of death. No official post-mortem findings have yet been released.
School authorities have not issued a detailed statement, and it remains unclear what events led up to the pupil being rushed to hospital. Questions still persist: When did he fall ill? Who was with him? How quickly was medical help sought?
Speaking by telephone, Nakuru County Education Director Victoria Mulili confirmed that her office had received a report.
“Investigations have been launched to establish the circumstances surrounding the learner’s death,” she said.
For now, those investigations are in their early stages. Police are expected to record statements from teachers, classmates and hospital staff. A post-mortem examination is likely to provide clearer answers.
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