Concerns have been raised as to whether all schools will have received the Ksh28 billion capitation funds for primary and secondary school students this Friday June 2, 2023 as promised earlier by Education Cabinet Secretary (CS) Ezekiel Machogu.
While visiting Kametho and Siger Primary schools in Rarieda sub-county in Siaya on May 30, 2023 to disburse infrastructure support funds, Machogu said that the money will reach all the schools by today.
“We will be releasing the Funds this week on Friday (June 2, 2023) to all schools. A total of Ksh28 billion has been disbursed and will be in all the schools’ accounts,” the CS said.
Now it has emerged that with complex procedures involved, it is not clear whether schools will have received the money by close of business today; since all County Directors of Education (CDEs) are supposed to submit application forms for Free Day Secondary Education (FDSE) Funding today at the Ministry of Education (MoE) headquarters in Jogoo House, Nairobi.
This comes after all secondary school principals were instructed to fill afresh the application forms requesting for disbursement of the funds, while their counter parts in Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) were required to present the JSS registration files with all requisite documents for registration of Basic Education Institutions to the CDEs office on or before Friday May 26, 2023.
“You are requested to ask all your principals to fill the Form afresh with all attachments and submit the duly signed forms per school to the CDE’s office on or before Thursday June 1, 2023 at 10.00 am. Any SCDE (Sub-county director of education) who will operate outside this framework will be expected to present the forms to Jogoo House, Nairobi not later than Friday June 2, 2023,” read one of the communications to SCDEs.
While making the application for the funds, the Principals were required to mandatorily attach their appointment letter to be Principals or if they are acting to attach the letter of acting Principal in their current station from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) this week.
In addition, they were required to attach the first ever certificate of registration together with all other subsequent certificates for the school; where in this case the registration number of the institution is that appearing on the first ever Registration certificate, the date of the first ever Certificate and also capture the period the school has existed in months.
Further to this, the minutes of Board of Management (BoM) inaugurations which indicate the signatories of the school accounts which include school account numbers, banks and bank branches were too required to mandatorily be attached on the application forms, with all blank spaces of the forms being mandatory required to be filled without cancellations before all the documents are certified by the SCDEs.
The stated areas are very crucial since they determine whether the school will be certified by the MoE for disbursement of the funds or not.
Other key areas the principals were to indicate when making applications include the school enrollment and student books, teachers guides and set books by indicating the ones available in the school and the deficit.
The government normally allocates Ksh1,420 per pupil in primary school, Ksh15,040 per pupil in JSS and Ksh22, 240 per pupil in secondary schools in the annual capitation grant.
By Education News reporter
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