Parents from Rongai constituency in Nakuru County now wants the government to come up with fixed secondary school fees to stop Principals from exploiting them. They recommended that the new fee structure be gazetted so that Boards of Governors (BOG) and teachers and parents associations do not tamper with them. In a signed statement sent to the press on Thursday, the parents led by Mr. William Orondo underscored the urgent need to formulate realistic secondary school fees guidelines and ensure they are gazette and enforced. The parents call comes in the wake of unmanageable secondary school fees that has threatened the education of many children in the country from poor families. “Most of our young people in this country have become so vulnerable to acquiring education due to the high school fees that has kept on rising in the past few years,” said Mr. Orondo. Coupled with the high inflation currently dogging the nation, investing in education ‘of our children is almost becoming near impossible,’ he added in the two page statement. He accused school principals of colluding with education officials and wealthy parents to run two sets of fee structures with a view to fleece parents of their hard earned money. Secondary schools have in the past years raising school fees on claims of matching them with the current economic situation in which essential goods prices have gone up tenfold. Some national schools are now charging up to Sh. 100,000 per year with the Principals arguing that they were being forced to do with the little they are receiving in fees to run their institutions. But in a statement which did not specify what the fee review should entail, the parents asked the government to reject the move by school heads to continually increase fees. “Their demands are not realistic. They just want to feel their school coffers so they can get an opportunity to deep their corrupt hands in the tills for their selfish gains,” said Mr. Orondo.

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