Busia township primary school in Busia town has received a major boost after Teso South Constituency Development Fund allocated it Kshs 15 million to build new classrooms after its three classrooms were destroyed by heavy rains and strong winds.
The disaster which occurred three weeks ago left over two hundred pupils in the densely populated school located in Busia town stranded as it also exposed many others to waterborne diseases after also destroying four latrines. Addressing teachers, pupils and parents in the school, Teso South Member of Parliament Hon. Geoffrey Omuse said the money will be used to put up a storey building that will house six classrooms, “I want the school committee to sit down and write minutes to public works requesting to demolish these old classrooms so that we put up new ones. CDF has allocated fifteen million shillings which will be used to erect six classrooms on a storey building. We cannot continue renovating old structures which pose danger to our pupils and teachers. We better put up new ones.”
The MP used the opportunity to call on the Ministry of Education to explain to Kenyans where it takes millions of shillings allocated to it every year for the improvement of infrastructure in public schools, “There is a lot of money allocated each year to the Ministry of Education for the sake of building and improving infrastructure in schools. But when such calamities occur everybody looks at CDF yet the Fund is not given enough money to cater for such needs. I have asked the Minister of Education to come to parliament to put bare the budgetary allocations to schools in Kenya and how much they have send to each school in Kenya. They should not concentrate much on private schools yet public schools are more worse in terms of infrastructure,” he stated.
Omuse also revealed that he is pushing for Alupe University College to be given a full charter, “We are going to come here with the President so that he hands Alupe University a full charter. Our road from Works in Busia town through Ang’orom, Okilidu to Otimong will also be tarmacked apart from putting up over ten transformers in various parts of the constituency.”
