The Monitor reports that students say they were protesting against being locked inside their dormitories.

“They said they [students] would rather die instead of being held hostage,” a student is quoted as saying.

A security guard at the school told the paper that they had been instructed to lock the female students inside their dormitory. This was to prevent them from leaving the school at night to go to town or meet boys.

The region's police boss Geofrey Orochi told the Monitor that 32 students have been arrested and that the police will make more arrests.