A widow in Bahati consittuency is threatening to sue the constituency’s development committee, over what she terms as discrimination in the allocation of the constituency’s education bursary funds.
According to Lonah Indangasi, a resident of Makao estate in Bahati Constituency, the Constituency Development Committee has all along failed to approve applications for her two children; one a student at Egerton University Nakuru Town Campus, and another a student at Natewa Secondary School in Nakuru town.
She said as a widow who earns very little from her vegetable and fruits business in the estate, her children deserve to benefit from the education fund, but the committee has all along declined to approve applications.
“I will seek legal action. I cannot understand why my children cannot qualify for the bursary yet they qualify. I think the committee is exercising discrimination based on tribal lines and which is against the law,” said Indangasi.
“My children were born in Nakuru and they have a right to benefit from government resources like other Kenyan children from poor backgrounds. Why discriminate against them?” she lamented, adding that no single application had materialized since she started applying for the bursary five years ago..
She said since her husband, Dancan Indangasi a former employee of Kenya Power and Lighting passed on during the 2007/08 post poll violence that rocked parts of Nakuru County, adding that she has been struggling to educate her three children.
According to the widow, her personal visits to the CDF offices and dialogue with some committee members had yielded no results.
When contacted for comments, a member of the CDF committee Bonfas Mwaura declined to comment, arguing that CDF matters are handled by a committee, and that he was merely a member. He however denied that the committee exercises discrimination.