Some of the schools Board of Management (BoMs) and elected leaders in Kisii County have been censured for endorsing wrong project priorities.
The projects have been alleged to plunge parents into deep financial commitments at the expense of quality education for their children.
Buses, building ultra-modern administration complex, and computer laboratories were cited as consuming huge financial resources when the schools had scanty physical facilities.
Speaking to the press the Kisii county education board chairman Henry Onderi attributed the endorsement of the wrong projects to ignorance by the parents and vested interests from some BoM members.
He warned that the parents risked paying for reconditioned buses that passed as new vehicles or losing them to the financiers for noncompletion of the loans.
The chairman observed that schools grappling with strained facilities found themselves compelled to make provisions for drivers, maintenance, insurance and fuel for the new buses.
The buses do not add value to the schools which were under-enrolled, claimed Onderi when advising the managements to get their priorities right from the onset.
But Bomachoge Chache legislator Samson Ogari termed the bus projects as a serious issue.
According to him, schools’ management should come up with strategic plans to sustain the buses since they cannot be hired by other learning institutions who had already procured them.
Ogari said the possibility of the buses being repossessed for non settlement of the loans was high.
The arrangements in some schools had been that the area CDF met the initial cost of the buses leaving the parents to offset the balances.