By Andanje Wakhungu
The newly elected County Assembly Member for Mugai/Shirugu in Kakamega County Peter Wanami has promised to improve the education standards in his ward by tabling a bill in the assembly to increase the county bursary kitty. He said the current Ksh. 2Million per ward was insufficient to address the high numbers of school-going children in the county hence the need to mobilise other MCA’s to pass the bursary bill into law once the assembly operations kick-off.
Mr Wanami, an educationist and retired head teacher was speaking after being announced the winner on the (UDA) party ticket. He expressed his joy following his election and assured his ward residents that he will push for more educational goodies that will enable and ease learning within the county. There is a need to invest more in educational matters and it is only through education that we will be able to steer this country to the next level of eradicating illiteracy, and poverty to also spruce up development.
Mr Wanami contested against nine other aspirants including two women, while three were retired teaching professionals in various capacities. He was declared the winner trouncing the incumbent and deputy speaker of the county assembly Lenny Kasaya (ODM).
The leader who has been on the forefront in propagating for the improvement of education standards by scouting for bursaries within the ward is also a re-known chairman of various school boards within the county and has been campaigning for the girl child education through provisions of sanitary towels among other toiletries effectively.
His latest lobbying has seen 10 bright needy students receiving bursaries from Kenya Alliance for the Advancement of Children, a nongovernmental organization. The leader has been on record encouraging and assisting and educating parents from his locality about the need to apply for bursaries and scholarship programmes for their children by engaging relevant organizations to visit and educate the communities over the same.
“We have been urging parents to be fully involved in educational matters and take such opportunities seriously to enable their children to go to school instead of deciding to marry them off or sent to unskilled labour markets when they are sent home for fees, there are so many organizations willing to assist these crop of bright needy children and now that I have been elected to the county assembly, I will push for more donors to chip in and uplift our education standards.
His wife, Jane Wanami, also an educationist, hailed the election of Mr Wanami noting that he was of great value to the education sector not only at the ward level but the entire county at large and promised to work together with him and other stakeholders to overhaul the education standards within.
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Western leaders are full of empty words, as always
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