{"id":129616,"date":"2026-01-27T11:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/teacher-recounts-door-to-door-hunt-for-slain-colleague-in-garissa\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:03:03","slug":"teacher-recounts-door-to-door-hunt-for-slain-colleague-in-garissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/teacher-recounts-door-to-door-hunt-for-slain-colleague-in-garissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher recounts \u2018door-to-door\u2019 hunt for slain colleague in Garissa"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 27 \u2014 A primary school teacher killed in a suspected Al-Shabaab attack in Garissa County was dragged from his house after gunmen went door to door in staff quarters, a colleague who encountered the attackers moments earlier has recalled.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Fundi Msili, a teacher at Hulugho Primary School, was pulled from his room and shot dead just metres from his home after the militants first entered a neighbouring house, questioned another teacher, and confirmed that their intended target was not there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey came to my house first,\u201d said Agnes Kavata Kithunga, Msili\u2019s neighbour and a teacher at the same school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey asked me a few questions, then realised the teacher they were looking for was not in my room [and] they went straight to his house.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minutes later, Msili was forced outside and killed.<\/p>\n

Brutal and deliberate <\/h2>\n

Another teacher, Meshak Sifuna, described the killing as brutal and deliberate.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur colleague was found in his house, taken out and shot,\u201d Sifuna said. \u201cHe was killed brutally, like an animal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The attack has left teachers in Hulugho deeply shaken, with many saying they no longer feel safe in their own homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am traumatised,\u201d Kithunga said. \u201cWe lived in the same compound. If they could come to his house at night and kill him, then none of us is safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teachers said that by Monday, no security assurances had been given by authorities, even as the bodies of Msili and a local chief who was also killed in the attack were removed.<\/p>\n

Educators in the area have now issued an urgent appeal to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to relocate them to safer regions, warning that they will abandon their stations if no action is taken.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are ready to continue teaching, but not here,\u201d Sifuna said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the TSC does not move us today, we will go to their offices in Garissa and stay there until our safety is guaranteed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kithunga said teachers had accepted postings in the region despite the known risks, but the latest attack has crossed a line.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came because there were no jobs back home,\u201d she said. \u201cBut we also have families. We cannot stay in a place where teachers are hunted in their houses.\u201d<\/p>\n

The killing has reignited concerns over the safety of non-local teachers in Kenya\u2019s North Eastern region, which has previously witnessed targeted attacks that forced mass withdrawals and severely disrupted education services.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 27 \u2014 A primary school teacher killed in a suspected Al-Shabaab attack in Garissa County was dragged from his house after gunmen went door to door in staff quarters, a colleague who encountered the attackers moments earlier has recalled. Stephen Fundi Msili, a teacher at Hulugho Primary School, was pulled from his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}