By Malachi Motano
The construction of the new Mama Ngina Girls High School in Shanzu area in Mombasa is expected to be complete early next year.
The government pumped close to Kshs 200 million for the model girls’ school relocation that now occupies 30 acres of land. The school will have the most advanced sporting facilities including an Olympic-size swimming pool, standard soccer pitches, basketball, volleyball and netball courts and a running track.
A cording to the institution’s Chief Principal Mwanahamisi Omar, the construction work is nearing completion and they expect learners to start occupying the new premises next year.
The Chief Principal said that construction works at the new site started in 2018 after they were allocated 20 acres by the Shimo la Tewa National School and a further 10 acres from the Department of Prisons and Correctional Services.
”We are grateful to President Uhuru Kenyatta who heeded to our pleas for more open space and made it possible for this move to happen,” she said.
It is expected that once the school is fully operational, it will support the Ministry of Education’s desire for a 100 per cent transition rate from primary to secondary school.
”85 per cent of the first phase is complete. Already we have 21 classrooms, several administration offices and four laboratories. In the second phase, we are looking at putting up the dormitories and hostels for the boarding section before we permanently take up our position here,” a delighted Chief Principal said.
Mr Polycarp Onyango, Presidential Delivery Unit Coast regional coordinator said that the government is committed to finishing the project alongside two other model schools which President Uhuru had instructed to be put up in Lamu and Kwale counties.
