Lugari: The government’s directive on a full transition of grade 10 students geared up in Lugari sub-county as local administrators embarked on a mop-up to ensure that all targeted learners reported to senior schools. Mugunga Assistant Chief Everline Watwatwa intensified the push for a door-to-door campaign in villages to ensure that her sub-location recorded a 100 per cent transition of learners to senior school, in compliance with last week’s presidential order.
According to Kenya News Agency, Watwatwa spoke at Mugunga Secondary School, where she had taken 13 students following a mop-up exercise. She vowed to ensure all last year’s Junior Secondary School learners from the sub-location who are still at home transit to senior schools regardless of their financial status. Last week, President William Ruto directed that all Grade 10 students should report to their respective senior schools by Friday morning (last week) regardless of whether they had paid school fees or had the required school uniforms.
Watwatwa expressed her commitment to a continuous mop-up exercise in line with the directive and ensuring no child is denied the right to education. She explained her efforts since Friday, moving around the sub-location with village elders to identify learners still at home. On Friday, she successfully took six students to two senior schools, with four going to Majengo Secondary School and two to Mugunga Secondary School. Early today, with the village elders, she managed to get 13 more students (ten boys and three girls) who were at home without hope of attending senior school, bringing them to Mugunga Secondary School.
Watwatwa appealed to all parents in her sub-location to ensure no learner stays at home due to lack of funds. Mugunga Secondary School Principal Edwin Wetete commended the assistant chief, urging her colleagues to emulate the same and ensure no child meant to be at school stays at home due to lack of school fees or any other requirement. He emphasized that all learners meant to be in senior school should report to school as directed by the president, regardless of having the necessary requirements.
Wetete appealed to all Lugari residents to be collectively at the forefront, ensuring no child stays at home, as education is the only equalizer in any society. He encouraged community members not to idle and watch their neighbor’s child sit at home but to guide them to the nearest secondary school for admission.
