A Supreme Court has overturned the ruling
of an appeal court on Thursday, over wearing of hijab in scools, saying every school had the right to determine its rules.
The Court sitting in Kenya ruled that
every school reserves the right to determine rules
as it relates to school uniform.
According to Daily Nation, Supreme Court judges
Njoki Ndung'u and Jackton Ojwang gave the
ruling after reading the judgment on appeal by
Methodist Church over wearing of hijabs in
school.
The court ruled in a majority decision that an
earlier ruling by the Court of Appeal went against
the school uniform policy.
In September 2016, the Court of Appeal had
ruled that students in public schools should be
allowed to items depicting their religious
affiliations, on their school uniforms.
The Methodist Church had, however, challenged
the ruling at the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court overturned the ruling on
Thursday, premising its decision on the basis
that every school had the right to determine its
rules.
The Methodist Church sponsors St. Paul's
Kiwanjani Secondary School in Isiolo, Kenya.
A similar situation is playing out at the
International School Ibadan (ISI), where the
preference of some parents for their wards to
wear the hijab has been opposed by the school
management