{"id":142376,"date":"2026-05-28T07:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/murkomen-education-cs-ogamba-and-dci-boss-visit-utumishi-girls-after-deadly-dormitory-fire-that-killed-at-least-10-students\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:03:06","slug":"murkomen-education-cs-ogamba-and-dci-boss-visit-utumishi-girls-after-deadly-dormitory-fire-that-killed-at-least-10-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/murkomen-education-cs-ogamba-and-dci-boss-visit-utumishi-girls-after-deadly-dormitory-fire-that-killed-at-least-10-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Murkomen, Education CS Ogamba and DCI Boss Visit Utumishi Girls After Deadly Dormitory Fire that killed at least 10 students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAKURU, Kenya May 28 \u2013 Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, his Education counterpart Julius Ogamba, and Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin have visited Utumishi Girls Academy in Gilgil following a tragic overnight dormitory fire that left at least 10 students dead.<\/p>\n<p>The senior government officials arrived at the school to assess the situation, coordinate investigations, and support ongoing emergency response efforts after the devastating incident that has shocked the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Security and education authorities are working jointly to establish the cause of the fire, which broke out in a dormitory housing students during the night.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders, alongside law enforcement teams, have been deployed to the school as investigations continue and affected families are being notified.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has renewed national debate on safety standards in boarding schools, particularly regarding fire preparedness, emergency evacuation systems, and enforcement of safety regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are expected to issue further updates as investigations progress and more details emerge about the cause of the fire and the number of casualties.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAKURU, Kenya May 28 \u2013 Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, his Education counterpart Julius Ogamba, and Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin have visited Utumishi Girls Academy in Gilgil following a tragic overnight dormitory fire that left at least 10 students dead. The senior government officials arrived at the school to assess the situation, coordinate [&hellip;]<\/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-142376","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\/142376","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=142376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}