Uasin Gishu Governor Mandago has launched a drive to push for enrolment to technical institutes.
In an event attended by, among others, Principal Secretary for TVET, Dr. Dina Mwinzi, top officers from France Embassy to Kenya, President and friends Rafiki Ya Maisha Foundation, Mandago lamented that the numbers in technicals are yet to appeal.
"The government has spent a lot of money to construct and equip these new technical institutes but sadly, the number of students are still very low," he said in a media briefing on Tuesday.
Deputy Governor Daniel Chemno said technical institutes should not be shrugged off that it is for children who have failed.
"It is a place where children with special talents can grow their abilities. This is where children who did not make it in formal education but have something special in them," said Chemno.
Governor Mandago used his time on the podium to allocate officers and friends to take sensitization programs to the grassroots.
Some people he mentioned, are supposed to get to the villages and get youth to enroll in technicals.
"We cannot achieve industrial revolution if we do not strengthen and get as many technical personnel as possible," he said.
The government is constructing at least one technical institute in each of the 290 constituencies. Some have been completed.
The Koshin TTI was funded by Rafiki Ya Maisha Foundation, a multi-national organization that spread funding to classrooms, administration block and other amenities in the institution.
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