South Mugirango Member of Parliament, MP Sylvanus Osoro has revealed that the constituency NG-CDF office will issue Ksh70 million to assist students in the area who come from poor home backgrounds.
Speaking at the Constituency when he supervised the exercise at both Nyamarambe and Etago Sub counties on Friday, Osoro added that the office has completed the signing of cheques to be issued to education bursary beneficiaries studying in secondary schools.
The lawmaker further said that each of the students who applied for the fund online will get the money without discrimination.
The MP who was flanked by some of the MCA’s and Secondary School principals said the exercise was done with a lot of transparency and accountability adding that only the total orphans received slightly higher amount than other applicants.
“We have prepared the cheques to be signed and sent to your various schools by next week he said.” He said
The MP, who slammed his critics on the allocation of the bursary fund, said that the South Mugirango Constituency has more than 168 schools and should not be compared with some of the constituencies that have less than 40 schools.
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He lauded his NG-CDF office for their consistent effort to serve the residents and called on continued harmonious relationship between thehis development committee members and the public.
He regretted that the constituency received less money which could not satisfy all the applicants but expressed his happiness to his personal groups and individual friends who donate money to him to top up to that issued by NG-CDF to support education education programmes.
Kisii National School Chief Principal Fred Mogaka who spoke on behalf of all principals present thanked the Government for its effort to provide quality education to the children countrywide.
Quoting the former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, Mogaka asked students to embrace education in the rest of their lives because it is the only best equalizer between the poor and the rich.
Standing as a model, he asked the students to start small and continue advancing until they reach their desire goal.
He asked them to shun drug abuse and questionable companies that might divert their concentration in studies.
By Enock Okong’o
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