Thika MP Patrick Wainaina addressing Jodan Institute of Technology graduands and parents at the Thika Stadium onFriday. [Photo: Facebook ]Thika Town MP Eng Patrick Wainaina has said that he will put up two-day secondary schools in each ward, one for girls and another for boys, where students who complete primary schools but miss out on the main schools can be absorbed.Wainaina, says that this is notwithstanding, the 100 percent transition rate from primary to secondary school as envisioned by the Jubilee government.Speaking at Thika Sub-County Stadium on Saturday during the 4th Graduation Ceremony of Jodan Institute of Technology, the MP added that he was also in talks with the Education Ministry and the management of the five major secondary schools in the area to construct additional classes that could accommodate day scholars from the constituency.In each of these cases, the MP plans to procure a bus that will be used to ferry the students to school and back home."I plan to use the resources at our disposal to construct two classrooms each in Thika High, Maryhill Girls, Chania Boys, Chania Girls, Thika Girls Karibaribi and Mang'u high schools to accommodate our own students who have attained 350 marks and above to be admitted as day scholars. We will provide school buses to each of these cases so as to ease their access to school," Wainaina said.Wainaina also admitted that majority of the public primary schools in the constituency were in deplorable state and a lot needed to be done to improve infrastructure in these institutions. "The money I have as CDF cannot be enough to do all these things. So, I am calling on all stakeholders to join in our 'adopt a classroom' programme and help to make our public schools more learner-friendly," he added.The first-time MP elected as the independent candidate said he planned to set aside a kitty to motivate both the learners and the teaching staff with a view of encouraging them to work on the education standards in their schools."Starting next term, I plan to start the 'Egg Monday Programme' where every pupil in all our public schools will be eating an egg every Monday morning. This will help improve class attendance and the general health of the learners," Wainaina said.Wainaina added that the egg Monday programme would be used as a source of income to parents as they will be encouraged rear poultry that will be supplying the eggs to their children."I am asking our parents to keep a few hens and form their own clusters where they will be supplying the eggs to schools. We intend to buy them at sh. 15 each so that the parents benefit twofold through earning money and also some of them being employed to be cooking for their own kids at school," he explained.

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