Makueni KESSHA Chairman Johnstone Ndivo has called for a dialogue regarding issuing KCSE certificates.
“We need dialogue to know how we will clear the debts left by those students. There are very huge school fee debts,” Ndivo said.
Ndivo, also the principal of Matiliku Boys, noted that even in hospitals when people are discharged, they always clear the hospital bills to be released. He wondered why principals are told not to clear those debts before students pick up their certificates.
He noted that suppliers are on their necks and will not understand if the certificates were issued freely since the school also depends on the balances to clear school debts.
“Well, the government should chip in to show us how we will clear these debts. Again, the government should waive schools’ debts because huge debts accrue in schools due to less capitation dispatch,” he said.
“If the government waives parastatals and big companies, why not waive the schools?” Ndivo questioned.
Ndivo was speaking while distributing secondary school books led by the Makueni Constituency Member of Parliament Suzzane Ndunge Kiamba at Nzaui in Matiliku Boys.
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He called for fairness on teachers’ promotion, adding that some teachers have overstayed in the same grade for 20 years, yet another one gets promoted in less than six years. He said this is inequality, and they will not allow or accept it.
Regarding delayed capitation, he expressed concern that if the government wants principals to run schools smoothly, the capitation should be the same as it used to be—KSh22,000.
“In that KSh22,000, let infrastructure not be included. It should come independently, the way it used to be before 2022. School operations and tuition should also be independent,” Ndivo stated.
The chairman said the government had issued only KSh. 8,000 despite being told they would get 50 per cent this term, meaning 100 per cent would be KSh16,000. “It’s still decreasing. From 22,000, it went down to 17,000; now it’s 16,000.”
By Lydia Ngoolo
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