Residents of Bosmamaro Masaba in Nyamira County have been urged to avoid clan conflicts and instead support initiatives aimed at improving education standards in the area.
This appeal was made by Nyamira South Sub County Deputy County Commissioner, Florence Obunga while presiding over a public baraza in the Bosamaro Masaba location in a bid to revitalise education standards which have greatly dwindled in the recent past.
“Communities where learning institutions exist build and sustain admirable education standards in their areas if they have good will and proper coordination and collaboration or the same community, on the contrary, totally jeopardises education standards due to unwarranted clannism tussles,” DCC Obunga stated.
She pointed out that leadership where there is poor stakeholder engagement and coordination, such institutions definitely record very poor performance because of a lack of a proper direction on the objective of providing education.
“Community members of Bosamaro Masasba identified a serious need in the education sector and proposed initiation of Riamandere Secondary school because their children used to walk very long distances to access a secondary school.
The government fully supported that initiative and agreed to register a school which has adequate infrastructure for day school learners, deployed teachers and assisted in formulating a board of management to run the school.” The officer narrated.
DCC Obunga pointed out that the same community has engaged in endless clannism wrangles and has dragged the school into their endless conflicts, which have directly affected the enrolment of learners into this once prestigious and coveted school for day school students.
Ms. Faith Kiprono, Nyamira South Sub County Director of Education, confirmed that all is not lost because officers from the ministry of education and Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and all the school’s stakeholders have picked up the matter and are treating it as a matter of urgency by doing consultations to redeem and revive Riamandere secondary school which has become a shell of its former past.
“The worrying low enrolment of less than 100 students in a once vibrant and populated school is a sure threat to the right of education for children in this community. The entire community must fully support efforts by education stakeholders to revive it and reclaim its former fame and good academic performance.
DCC Obunga urged the community to call upon the area opinion leaders, elected leaders and even the school alumni to sensitise the entire community on the importance of enrolling their children in Riamandere secondary school because the teachers deployed there graduate from the same universities as those who teach in national schools.
“Let the school community show goodwill and enrol their children here and the once celebrated exemplary academic performance will automatically be recouped.” The DCC appealed.
By Deborah Bochere
