By Achola Bulimo Mathews
The National Goverment is keen to ensure there is total absorption of students into Form One.
This is according to the Principal Secretary (PS) State Department for University Education and Research, Ambassador Dr. Simon Nabukwesi while on an inspection tour of the implementation of the programme and surveying of the status of newly built Competency Based Curiculum (CBC) Classes in Bungoma County.
Speaking to the press at Kimaeti Primary School during the inspection exercise, Nabukwesi pleaded with parents and guardians to ensure their children secure a spot in secondary schools adding that their school fees would be paid by the government.
“I call on parents whose children are yet to join school to enrol them and incase they meet any financial challenges, the government shall intervene,” Dr. Nabukwesi urged.
In Kimaeti ward, approximately 294 children did not join secondary school because their parents could not afford to pay for school fees and other requirements needed to join secondary school.
The PS pointed out to parents the perils awaiting idle children when they do not continue their studies.
“The government is keen to raise our children in an orderly manner where they are given basic education in order to raise a better society,” said Dr Nabukwesi.
Dr. Nabukwesi who has been visiting schools in the Western region recently, was accompanied by the Bungoma County Director of Education, Mr Philip Chirchir.
Thereafter, the PS together with his team visited Mupeli Primary School and later Baptist Girls where he commissioned one CBC classroom.
