By Roy Hezron
Kenya has won the bid to host the International Confederation of Principals (ICP) conference in 2024 after beating Singapore in a lobby fronted by Kenya Secondary Schools Heads Association (KESSHA) National Chairperson, Kahi Indimuli.
Indimuli who is currently in Singapore for this year’s ICP conference revealed on October 28, 2022 that during a voting exercise, Kenya won the bid supported by other African countries with 16 votes while Singapore garnered 8 votes.
“I am happy to report that today [October 28,2022] I led the team from Africa in a presentation to bid for Kenya to host the ICP Conference in 2024 where we successfully won by beating Singapore 16 votes to 8,” said Indimuli through his official Facebook page yesterday.
Indimuli will today be addressing the Conference on the topic ‘Future leaders, Future schools, Lesson Learnt from COVID-19 Pandemic, Africa’s Experience.’
The ICP is the only global association that brings together the representatives of school principals’ organisations from all over the world to discuss the challenges facing school leaders at the workplace.
Winning the bid is very significant since it is an event on the international education calendar with an excess of 1,500 principals in attendance and provides the host country with an opportunity to showcase their education policies and practices.
The latest development comes after Kenya held the African Confederation of Principals (ACP) which has a membership of 12 African states majority of whom are Anglophones in August 2018; where Indimuli took its leadership as President for a two-year term.
According to their constitution, the hosting country automatically passes the baton to the next president, where he handed over to Nigeria.
