Machakos government has been urged to allocate more funds for access roads in the county to ensure efficient access to schools.
The call was made by the Ngalani Ranch Primary School’s head teacher Titus Kioko who said the roads if improved will enable easier access to schools in remote parts of the county especially among children and their teachers.
“Our roads are extremely impassible and teachers plus the children they teach find it rough to get to and leave the schools especially in interior parts of the county,” said Kioko.
Kioko who addressed the press in Githunguri shopping centre on Tuesday, said both children and teachers from his school that is located in Mavoko Sub-County were not able to access the school last Wednesday after River Athi overflew following heavy rains experienced in the region.
He said it was not the first time poor conditions of the roads in the area deterred the learners together with their educators from getting to the school.
Kioko revealed that the roads to the institution were frequently cut off whenever there were heavy rainfalls thereby compromising the children education.
He cited the late last year’s heavy rains that were experienced in the entire country as an example of a disaster which completely paralyzed education in the school for a while because the roads were cut off.
Kioko said most of the roads in the region were dilapidated already arguing that the recent El-Nino rains worsened the situation that has never been rectified.