Embattled Kisumu East Member of Parliament, (MP) Shakeel Shabbir has now turned the blames to the Ministry of Education, (MoE) for the problems bedeviling St Peters Kindu secondary school within his constituency.
Shabbir said the correspondences he has drafted have been highlighting some of the bottlenecks at the learning institution which he lamented now nears collapse.
Speaking on phone Shabbir said the school’s student population has steadily fallen from over 400 to the current 81.
The law maker said that the School has a total population of 10 teachers who have been posted by the Teachers Service Commission while one is engaged by the Board of Management.
The MP said the school performance in national examination deplorable with no student qualifying to join public universities each year, adding that the best grades at the institutions are normally Ds.
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He also lamented that most teachers at the school do not report on duty and have held the head teacher captive.
Shabir said the teacher he recently rebuked in public scorned at him when he demanded to know the goings on at the learning institution.
The Mp promised to assist students at the learning institution join TVETS.
However, the Kisumu County director of education Rosemary Birenge said she is yet to receive the MP’s concerns.
“He may have written to the teacher’s service commission since it is a teacher management issue,” she said.
The MP’s action has recently attracted backlash from various quarters with unions threatening to call a strike if he does not apologize publicly.
Some of the unions who reacted to his move included the Kenya national union of teachers led by the secretary general Collins Oyuu alongside the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education teachers under the charge of the secretary general Akello Misori.
Both Misori and Oyuu called on the MP to follow the right procedure in addressing issues at St Peter’s Kindu secondary school.
By Fredrick Odiero
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