Kwale Women Representative Zuilekha Juma Hassan. (Photo/Facebook)
Poor infrastructure in most of schools at the Coast has been cited as the major setback for the education sector in the region.
Kwale Women representative Zuleikha Juma Hassan said that the region has been neglected by the National government and most of the schools in the region had poor infrastructure.
Speaking in Mombasa on Sunday Zuleikha said that the government has been focusing more on schools in upcountry forgetting those along the Coastal region and he insisted that the government must improve infrastructure in Coastal schools.
The Kwale Women representative said that it was absurd and open discrimination when a high school at the Coast has only 12 teachers while the same school with the same number of students at Nairobi had 80 teachers.
“It is a pure fact that that Coast region has been neglected, poor infrastructure, with only few teachers deployed in those schools what do you expect of course poor education levels among our children,” she said.
She urged the government to work with Coast regional leaders in a bid to improve the infrastructure in Coastal schools so as pupils learn in a very conducive environment.
“The Teachers Service Commission, TSC should also deploy teachers without any political interference or discrimination, we need more teachers in our schools,” she said in Sunday in Mombasa.
Zuleikha also raised concerns over some schools in upcountry barring students from wearing Hijab, an Islamic women head gear.
She said that some students who did very well in their KCSE examination and were called to join National secondary schools in Nyeri were denied registration because they were wearing Hijab.
She appealed to the National government to ensure that Muslim students are allowed to wear Hijab in schools since by denying them following their Islamic teachings and rules amounts to religious discrimination in the country which is also against the constitution.