Sakaja Defends Machogu’s Midnight Directive, Fund All Stranded Students
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has asked his staff to visit all matatu stages and provide transportation for all stranded students returning home.
While talking on Radio Citizen, the governor announced that he would personally visit the matatu stages to lend a hand.
He explained that some of the students had already left their houses when Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu issued a directive to extend school resumption dates to Monday, May 6.
The governor vowed that all students trapped in Nairobi, regardless of county of origin, would benefit.
He claimed to have seen numerous images of stranded students online, some of whom had received a one-way bus fare to school.
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When he left the studio, he promised to go to the stages and pay for all the stranded students in town. He added that he had sent his team to check, and that he would go to the stages himself. He promised to give them fare and soda.
Sakaja also urged Kenyans to stop criticizing Machogu, asserting that other factors influenced the decision to hold a midnight press briefing.
Online commenters chastised the Education Minister for issuing the warning, claiming that most parents had already prepared for school reopening, and in some cases, pupils had already left their homes.
“You cannot blame the minister for not thinking because maybe they got the information at night or they got direction from other places for the better.
“Never think that the government has ill will when releasing information,” Sakaja added.
A report from regional education heads prompted Machogu to postpone the reopening date, as he noted in the letter.
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Machogu reported that, due to the ongoing heavy rains, the Ministry of Education had directed its field officers the previous week to submit data from all basic education learning institutions countrywide to assist the government in assessing the schools’ readiness for the second term opening on Monday, April 29, 2024.
Additionally, Machogu noted that reports from the Ministry of Education, along with data from other relevant government agencies, confirmed the adverse impact of the rains on several schools across the country.
Sakaja Defends Machogu’s Midnight Directive, Fund All Stranded Students
