{"id":915889,"date":"2022-01-13T09:49:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T09:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/13\/headteacher-held-for-hiring-standard-two-pupil-as-househelp\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T09:49:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T09:49:59","slug":"headteacher-held-for-hiring-standard-two-pupil-as-househelp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/headteacher-held-for-hiring-standard-two-pupil-as-househelp\/","title":{"rendered":"Headteacher held for \u2018hiring Standard Two pupil as househelp\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The headteacher was detained at Rodi Police Station, Homa Bay.<\/strong> [James Omoro, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A primary school headteacher in Homa Bay has been arrested after he reportedly hired an underage girl as a househelp thereby denying her a chance to attend school.\n<\/p>\n

The nine-year-old is said to have dropped out of school in Migori County in May last year. She was in Standard Two. <\/p>\n

She\u00a0is said to have been tasked with the responsibility of taking care of the teachers\u2019 one-year-old baby.\n<\/p>\n

The headteacher, who lives in Rodi Kopany Township, is accused of making the girl stay in his house when she was supposed to be in school.<\/p>\n

His arrest followed concern by neighbours who wondered why the girl was not going to school. Some of the residents informed Homa Bay sub-county children\u2019s officer Joseph Otieno about the situation.\n<\/p>\n

Otieno said he liaised with police from Rodi Police Station and stormed the house.\n<\/p>\n

The officers arrested the headteacher after establishing he had turned the girl into a house help. \u201cIt is true the man has been exposing the girl to child labour,\u201d Otieno said. <\/p>\n

The headteacher was detained at Rodi Police Station.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The headteacher was detained at Rodi Police Station, Homa Bay. [James Omoro, Standard] A primary school headteacher in Homa Bay has been arrested after he reportedly hired an underage girl as a househelp thereby denying her a chance to attend school. The nine-year-old is said to have dropped out of school in Migori County in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}