ALPHAN THE PRESIDENT

CHAPTER 10

Chapter 10

"good morning class?"

"good morning madam"

They responded in unison

"from now henceforth Am your class teacher, call me madam Muia, have you been issued with books?"

"no madam"

"I really hope this is form one mandela, right?"

"yes madam"

She then called two boys who were sitted behind they seemed masculine, one was dark abit tall and the other was tall and brown, the black boy was reluctant to respond to the call and he lazily stood up. She was annoyed and called him again

"you... young man am calling you and you are not ready to respond to my call?"

She breathed in heavily and then continued

"what is your name?"

"alphan.."

"alphan who?"

"derrick alphan"

"now you two can you follow me"

The three went out from the class , the remaining students immediately started chatting, this was usual whenever a teacher left a class and they were left without anything else to do. Few minutes later the three came back the two boys carrying the cartons full of books and the teacher came cat walking, something appreciable and maybe that is why the class loved her, she had a number 8 body figure and she wouldn't tire showing off what she got.

Silence covered the class again as she asked the two big boys to distribute the books and to make sure that each student gets 12 books. They did as onstructed and some books remained which she added each of them one book and the rest were to be taked back to the books store.

"now class here in high school we have leaders, whom you used to call prefects in primary school and we call the coordinators, the co ordinators are democratically elected by the dtudents, who do you want to be your coordinator?"

"tony!..."

A boy from behind shouted

"tony.....tony.....tony......tony.."

Immediately all started shouting

"tony for cordi...."

Tony was a social guy and he was the one who had helped alphan in distributing the books. He had made friends with almost everybody in the class and maybe that was the reason many wanted him to lead the class.

"silence!!!! And I say silence!!!"

She commanded the class and as expected they remained dumb.

"now how many of you want to be future presidents?"

A handsome number of students raised their hands, among them was alphan. He looked at them all and called out the black boy behind the class.

"what is your name again?"

"alphan derrick"

She wrote the names on the blackboard and said from now henceforth he is your coordinator. That was not democracy but as usual a form one student will never have a right as in all high schools in kenya. And that is when he became the class coordinator of the form one mandela class.

"make sure you write me the noise makers in my class and always ensure the class is ever clean, and after this present your name and admission number to the school chairman"

He noded as he sat back to his locker.

Form one was never a long year since time flied as expected, those who never adhere to the straight and narrow faced it rough in his hands and must have hhad seen that year as the longest year in teir lives.

Form two came soonest possible and life was now more tempting, many students were willing to venture in many vice, one of such students was tony, a student from form two mandela, he was a wise crooked student, he was ever indisciplined and would sometimes involve many other students and they would suffer the consequences, many were suspended and others expelled. He was never none of them.

This became a matter of concern even to the chairman and would condemn alphan during the weekly meetings, enough evidence was needed to expel him from school by the deputy principal but the ever wise crook never left traces of his actions. Every coordinator was given the archulian task to make sure they get enough evidence before many other students suffer because of him.

Alphan did what was expected of him and he once found him stealing from a friends box, at the same time he found his secret box where all the illegal things were, such as bang, alcohols, crack and even cocaine. He was expelled at last from the school. And that was a great achievement for alphan.