A year ago, images of green-clad primary school pupils holding up placards and branches, pushing down a perimeter wall as police dogs strained against their leashes and eventually fleeing from teargas, attracted widespread condemnation.

It was the #OccupyPlayground demonstration against the alleged grabbing of two acres of land from the Lang’ata Road Primary School.

Later, accusations were traded over who between ineffectual state agencies and the protest organisers were to blame for putting the dozens of children in harms way but it was widely agreed that children should never again be put in such a position.