JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
The appellant, Pitynase Muthoni Kirigu, was employed as an Account's Clerk by the respondent, The Board of Management, Chogoria Girls' Boarding Primary School in 1987. She worked in that capacity until 2013 when she was suspended from employment. This was after an audit was carried out by the School's Audit Unit of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology which found that a sum of Kshs. 1,188,679/- had been misappropriated and stolen from the school's accounts. The Board of the respondent summoned the appellant and her colleague, one Nanise Kaari, to a meeting on 14th March, 2013. It had been found that the appellant and her said colleague had illegally printed Receipt Books which they used to misappropriate school funds. Summoned to that meeting and as shown in Minutes recorded by the Principal of the school, Mrs. Florence Kimathi, and confirmed by the chairman, the appellant and her colleague readily admitted stealing the money, begged for forgiveness a…