Secondary school principals in Kisii county have threatened to close schools due to the continued delay in the disbursement of capitation funds which has crippled the running of schools countrywide.
Most of them expressed fear of going to school and face debtors who supplied the schools with food, stationery and other materials including repairers and contractors.
“We have been forced to spend our meagre salaries to run the schools but it seems the funds are still far away,” said one principal on condition of anonymity.
A day school principal narrated how he decided to skip one school day to avoid facing a hardware owner who lent him Ksh600,000 to buy food for school.
“I used the money to pay the most nagging food suppliers and payment of the support staff to buy some time, for at least a week but the problem is still here,” he said.
A spot check by Education News revealed that most schools in the region had not taken part in the second term ball games due to lack of funds.
Their urgent concerns follows the promise by Education CS Ezekiel Machogu who said that schools would receive the funds in their accounts by Friday, June 2.
The principals called on Machogu to issue a statement regarding the delay before matters worsened in schools.
By Enock Okong’o
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