School heads will have to look for alternative ways to keep learners in schools without money following announcement by government that it will release capitation funds by the end of this month.
National Treasury CS Treasury John Mbadi has said that government is looking for money and by the end of this month it will release the funds to Ministry of Education.
“We are working closely with the Ministry of Education to ensure money is released to schools on time and ensure smooth learning,” Mbadi said.
Saying that he is aware of the concern over the delay in releasing the cash, he asked school heads to bear with the government for a short while.
Mbadi explained that the government experiences slowed pace of revenue collection in January and February.
Said Mbadi, “Our priority this year is to pay back the loans, release capitation to school, pay salaries and release the December allocation to county governments.”
“Let schools not act like there is an emergency, learning can still go on even if we have not released the funds. I can, however, assure than that salaries of all school workers are available.”
Ogamba over the weekend said that the State would release 50 per cent of the capitation money this month.
Primary and secondary schools’ learners started reporting for the first term on Monday, January 6.
The State through has promised to disburse KSh48.4 billion capitation funds for public primary and secondary schools.
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Ogamba said the released amount represents 50 per cent of the total capitation for academic year 2025.
Primary schools will get KSh4.1 billion while KSh28.9 billion has been disbursed to Day Secondary schools.
Day Junior Secondary schools will receive KSh15.3 billion.
He added that the government will release 30 per cent of the capitation in Term Two and remaining 20 per cent in Third Term.
By Joseph mambili
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