2,700 Form 1 students in Shinyalu Constituency, Kakamega County have received Ksh10 million in bursary cheques from the area NG-CDF kitty.
Speaking during the disbursement at Magale Secondary School on Tuesday, area MP Fred Ikana said that following the allocation, the total number of students who have benefited from bursaries this year is 9,700.
“We disbursed the education bursaries to an initial batch of 7,000 students in Form two, three, four and colleges earlier in the year which costed Ksh30 million,” he said.
Ikana noted that the bursary committee ensured equity in the disbursement to ensure that students from across the constituency benefited regardless of whether they were day scholars or boarders.
The legislator reiterated that education was one of his top development priorities, adding that he will put up storey classroom blocks in schools across the constituency.
He revealed that the first beneficiaries include Shitochi, Ivakale and St. Joseph’s Mukulusu Primary Schools.
Ikana was accompanied by, among others, Ikolomani MP Benard Shinali and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Kakamega County Chairman Patrick Chungani.
By Denis Lumiti
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