A primary school in Shinyalu Constituency, Kakamega County, is set to relocate due to land constraints.
Area MP Fred Ikana announced plans to relocate Mukango Primary School in Isukha Central Ward from its current location to a new site.
Ikana said the school’s current location was too congested for any meaningful development.
He said he had secured land just in the locality at Ksh. 2 Million and that construction of the new modern school would kick off in January.
He said the inadequate land had made it impossible for him to develop it through NG-CDF and other partnerships.
“The school is situated just next to a main road that could soon be expanded and affect it further. The learning environment is also very unhealthy because the pupils do not even have space for recreation,” he said.
He said the land on which the institution is currently located would be used to host another facility that does not need a lot of space.
This is the MP’s latest intervention meant to transform his Constituency through education.
He said the modern storey learning blocks being put up in over fifteen primary schools across the Constituency were at advanced stages with some already completed in a span of two years.
Ikana also donated buses to Lugala and St. Monica Lubao secondary schools to aid in the transportation of the institutions’ learners, teachers and members of the public.
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“We are putting up a number of schools from scratch while renovating and modernising many others in deliberate efforts meant to revolutionise education in Shinyalu,” he added.
These include Munyanda, Ishikulu and Lwanda primary, and St. Agnes Shibuye and St. Philip’s Mugomari Girls secondary schools.
“We finally resolved the long-running land crisis at Vikutsa Primary School, and we shall now commence its development into a modern learning institution,” he added.
The legislator stated that poor school infrastructure in Shinyalu in the past had compelled parents to send their children to study elsewhere, which was costly.
He hailed the Ministry of Education for elevating Sacred Heart Mukumu Girls High to national status. Still, he urged them also to consider upgrading a boys’ school from the Constituency to a similar level.
Ikana was speaking at Iloro area in Shinyalu when he hosted his colleagues Benard Shinali of Ikolomani, Christopher Aseka of Khwisero, Emmanuel Wangwe of Navakholo, Matungu’s Peter Nabulindo and Woman Representative Elsie Muhanda.
By Denis Lumiti
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