Kisumu East Constituency Development Fund (CDF) has set aside Sh100,000 for emergency tents for candidates sitting this year’s KCSE exams.
The students from St. Albert Angira secondary school will have to use the tents after their classrooms were declared unfit for human habitation. The classrooms, and those of the neighbouring Angira primary school, were condemned by public health officials after they developed wide cracks posing a great risk to students and pupils.
Recently, the school and members of local community staged a peaceful demonstration to register their displeasure with an investor involved in quarrying activities and who they blamed for the damages to the buildings.
Speaking during a stakeholder consultative meeting to assess the impact of the environmental hazard at the school, Kisumu East CDF account manager, Kipng’etich Langa’t said his office has set aside Sh 500,000 as administrative funds for the construction of a laboratory but now part of the funds will have to be used to hire two tents for the school.
“After purchasing the tents, the administration block will be moved to the tents as the form four candidates use the laboratory and one of their classrooms during the exams,” Langa’t said.
He added that another Sh1 million emergency funds will be added to Sh 2 million that was allocated for renovation of classrooms in the school during this financial year to enable the school construct four prefabricated classrooms as a temporary intervention.
Kisumu East Member of parliament, Shakeel Shabir, said that that the structural design of the classrooms was poorly done hence the urgency to vacate the buildings without further delay.