Machogu Issue Directive to Teachers As Schools Open
As schools get ready to resume on May 8, Ezekiel Machogu, the cabinet secretary for education, gave stringent instructions to principals on Tuesday, May 2.
Following reports of possible food poisoning in some schools, Machogu urged head teachers to make sure the meals served to students are healthy.
The CS also demanded that all institutions across the nation conduct routine inspections of the drinking and cooking water they use.
To prevent any injury to pupils, Mochogu said that “school administration and teachers must ensure the safety of meals and drinking water served to students.”
Machogu delivered the comments at Jamhuri High School in Nairobi’s grounds during the 7th graduation ceremony for Kenya Education Management Institute (KEMI).
The act was unlawful.
At the same time, the CS warned instructors against using corporal punishment on kids and urged them to stop using it.
Machogu cautioned that if a teacher engaged in corporal punishment, they would be treated as criminals and faced with legal charges.
He added that school administrators should handle the Ksh9.6 billion in government funding for junior secondary schools with caution.
The administration was working on efforts to streamline the curriculum by lowering the amount of courses taught in schools, he added at the same time.
Concerned about the difficulties junior secondary schools face, the CS acknowledged that the government was working with the World Bank to equip schools with laboratory Apparatus.
His instructions were issued a month after the closure of the Mukumu Girls and Butere Boys High Schools in Kakamega County due to an illness outbreak. Three pupils and a teacher died at Sacred Heart Mukumu as a result of the illness, causing a huge outrage.
On April 5, the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) reported that students at Mukumu Girls’ High School had amoebic gastroenteritis in addition to other infections.
The majority of kids reported having severe stomach problems and abdominal pain.
According to Susan Nakhumicha, the health cabinet secretary, a large number of students in Kakamega had to be admitted to various medical institutions due to the infection.
For the second term, which runs through August 11, students are scheduled to return to class.
Machogu Issue Directive to Teachers As Schools Open
