Thika West Deputy County Commissioner, Tom Anjere addressing the media. [Photo|KNA]
Thika Deputy County Commissioner (DCC)Tom Anjere has sent a stern warning to secondary school principals who sell out form one slots to students.
The slots, he said, are allocated for after those who had been designated for them fail to turn up for various reasons.
Anjere, who was speaking on Wednesday at Thika High school during a meeting
centred
on 100% transition from primary to secondary school, the principals will face the full force of the law when found.
“It’s a fraudulent act punishable by law and the local Criminal Investigations department will probe any allegation to that effect and those culpable will be dealt with accordingly,” said Anjere.
Anjere revealed that the government machinery was in the know that 355 pupils who wrote their Kenya Certificate Primary Education (KCPE) last year have not yet reported to the various schools where they were allocated for a range of reasons.
“The local Education Board will go out of its way to get to the bottom of the problem,” Anjere added.
Anjere who was accompanied by Thika town MP Eng. Patrick Wainaina (
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Jungle), the area Director of Education Ronald Mbogo and the entire Security Committee, said that the local authorities have launched a sting operation in homesteads to ensure no student who did their KCPE last year fails to go to secondary school.
“The Ministry of Education has clearly stipulated the basic requirements for the 100% transition and every student who sat the KCPE and attained a mark is eligible to join a day Secondary school near him. The only requirement is the relevant school uniform and nothing else,” affirmed the DCC.
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