Lurambi MP Bishop Titus Khamala officially handed over the long-awaited modern tuition block to Kakamega Muslim Primary School.
Speaking during the handing-over ceremony, the MP said he took the initiative to construct the new tuition block, which will host eight classrooms, due to the growing population of about 5,000 learners at Kakamega Primary School, the immediate neighbour of the Muslim school.
The construction of the new tuition block will decongest learners at Kakamega Primary to study at Muslim Primary, which has only a population of about 100 learners.
Bishop proposed to the select committee of Kakamega Muslim Primary School following the death of Children at Kakamega Primary School 5 years ago.
MP Khamala took the initiative to decongest Kakamega Primary School by bringing learners to the collapsed Muslim school.
He urged leaders to avoid politics at the Muslim school and embark on reviving it, bringing in new learners to fill empty classrooms and assuring that there will be more learners next year.
“I have assisted more schools that were collapsing, such as Matende Girls, which was in chaos, and St. Luke’s Shisango Girls. I moved in personally and was putting over 50 learners in every school to join Form 1 last year.
This is why more students received bursaries yesterday, and school principals knew that bursary disbursement could be very low.
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“But I did my best; bursary forms for some of you came and were taken back for inquiries if there were extra forms to boost your allocation,” Khamala emphasised and appealed to the CDF committee for the remaining two years to remain firm and work for the people of Lurambi Constituency smartly as before.
He lauded the CDF committee, which has supported bursaries and National Government Administrative Officers (NGAO), expressing the need to work smart: “Today we are here, and I commend the work done in every classroom following the inspection with the team.”
Khamala reaffirmed and cautioned the committee to keep off cartels who loiter around them, because every regime has cartels looking for ways to survive quickly.
At the same time, he embarked on a program to donate 20 desks to every primary school, and he moved around during the official opening of the new tuition blocks.
Shieywe Ward nominated MCA Jael Omunyang’oli to echo these sentiments and promise to add more desks at the Muslim school.
By Hilda Atika
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