Schools that had their facilities damaged by rioting students last term are yet to complete repairs because of huge amounts of money required for the job, the Nation has established.

At the Kilifi Township Secondary School, only one of the two dormitories razed has been repaired as Form One to Three students started reporting for the third term.

Damage to Kilifi Township and Godoma Secondary schools is estimated at Sh4 million. In order to repair the facilities, the management of the two schools have introduced tough conditions for readmission of students.

Godoma Secondary School board of governors chairman Bishop Julius Kalu said the 600 students would have to pay Sh6,000 each, and any fee balances before readmission.

He told the Nation that a meeting held on Thursday resolved that Sh15.2 million needs to be raised to put up a modern dormitory, ablution block and a fence around the school compound.

"Other safety measures to be implemented are deployment of three watchmen for 24 hours and putting up fire-fighting gadgets in dormitories and strategic places," the bishop said.

Safety measures being implemented at Kilifi Township Secondary School include the formation of a disciplinary and security committee that will inspect dormitories during the day and night.

Principal Kagutha Macharia said that the committee would also be responsible for giving permission to students who wanted to go out of the compound unlike in the past when any teacher could do this.

All the 550 students are required to pay Sh4,000 each for the damages and clear all the outstanding fees for the first and second terms.

In Taita and Taveta districts, most schools have not complied with various safety measures announced by the Government to avert disasters.

Taveta district education officer George Awuocha said that although all the four secondary schools in his area have doors that open outwards, they were yet to be equipped with fire extinguishers.

He said it was a costly exercise that required parents "to dig deeper into their pockets, that is why it was being done in bits and pieces".

He also said Timbila High School, where students burnt down a laboratory last term, will open as scheduled, while repair work and equipping of the facility goes on. The damage was estimated at Sh3.7 million.

"We are trying to source money from elsewhere to see if the damaged laboratory could be rebuilt," he said.

In Kaloleni District, parents of schools that were damaged by rioting students last term will have to pay for the cost of the damages, area education officer Julius Nkariphia said on Monday.