The government has been blamed for failing to prioritise development to benefit the country’s children. Kitutu Chache North Parliamentary aspirant Andrew Maubi said the government spends a lot of money on political campaigns and forgets to budget for important education activities like paying examination fees for KCSE candidates.
“The government is joking with the lives of our children’s education by embarrassing them and their parents through unpredictable policies in the Ministry of Education.”He said.
The aspirant questioned the rationale of the government’s allocation of funds to other departments like security, road development, and teacher employment, but failed to budget for examination fees. However, they know that examinations are integral to learners’ lives.
Maubi, speaking to the public at Marani town, asked parents to demand better services from the government for the value of their tax.
“You pay taxes and expect good services, especially when investing in your children’s education. It is disappointing when students who have remained in class preparing for examinations are left in uncertainty, ” he said.
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In another forum in the Constituency Nyabworoba Sub location, Assistant Chief Moses Onkware decried the high dropout rate of secondary school students. He attributed it to the abuse of illicit brew, Chang’aa, and other drugs.
On Friday, the assistant chief addressed a public baraza and said the local NG-CDF office had released education bursary funds for this year’s beneficiaries. However, the beneficiaries have not returned to school since reopening for the second term.
He said that his office was compiling a list of all secondary school students from the area who had not reported to school to make a follow-up and hold the parents responsible for the mess.
“My office can not allow these defaulters unless parents cooperate with us by reporting to our offices for legal follow-up, ” he said.
The chief warned bodaboda operators who lured students into the industry by giving them free rides for fun and eventually trapping them, saying that this violated the law safeguarding their rights.
By Enock Okong’o
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