Limuru Constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Eng. Kiragu Chege has appealed to the Government to find an urgent solution to the ongoing teachers' strike which has paralysed education in public schools for one week now.
Speaking in Limuru on Saturday, Eng. Chege said that it is a pity that children from poor backgrounds in public schools continue to suffer adding that children of the warring parties continue with learning in private schools.
He further claimed that, “Even some teachers cannot feel a pinch of the strike because their kids are in private schools.”
He continued, “Let the government and Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) meet fast so that they can agree on what is possible now and what teachers can wait. for we know that the country does not have a lot of money. Let us be humane enough and feel for that poor child.”
At the same time Eng. Chege has asked Limuru residents whose children are yet to get chances in the existing secondary schools to enrol them in the newly five opened public secondary schools in the area as a way of developing education in the area.
"So many pupils are dropping out in class 8 because they cannot be absorbed in the current schools. Umoja, Kabuku,Muna and Gatuura will admit students this year,” said Limuru MP, Eng. Chege.
This has come at a time when the opposition members led by Senator Bonny Khalwale have also challenged the government to have a dialogue with teachers through their unions to end the strike to enable children resume their studies before they waste more time which will definitely interfere with their syllabus.