Nairobi — Parliament has initiated a landmark process to consolidate all existing education bursaries and funding streams in a relate to pave the ability without cost and obligatory primary education in Kenya.
This follows the tabling of a motion to establish an advert-hoc choose committee tasked with making a complete proper and institutional framework to abet the unified disbursement of education funds.
The motion used to be offered within the National Assembly by Minority Chief Junet Mohamed (Suna East), who underscored the inefficiencies and fragmentation plaguing the most up-to-date education funding panorama.
“Our children are suffering due to the duplication and fragmentation of bursary and scholarship programs across constituencies, counties, and national institutions. This initiative aims to ensure that education financing is transparent, efficient, and reaches the intended beneficiaries without political or bureaucratic interference,” Mohamed stated.
The proposed choose committee can be tasked with conducting an intensive situational diagnosis of existing education funds, every at nationwide and county phases, identifying overlaps, inefficiencies, and gaps in disbursement.
This can even recommend a governance and operational mannequin for a unified National Training Fund and indicate laws to institutionalize the contemporary framework.
“We must put in place a legal and institutional structure that guarantees every Kenyan child access to quality education regardless of their economic background. Free and compulsory education should not just be a constitutional promise, but a lived reality,” Mohamed effectively-known.
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The advert-hoc committee as soon as adopted by the home can rep a big decision of duties for the committee, including enticing key stakeholders, creating eligibility and disbursement standards, and recommending accountability mechanisms to attach sure honest utilize of funds.
“We are not just creating another committee. We are laying the foundation for a fairer, more accountable education financing system aligned with Vision 2030 and our constitutional obligations,” the Suna East lawmaker acknowledged.
Lawmarkers rep pushed for the amalgamation and consolidation of all funds and bursaries supporting needy college students entrenched to arrest an apparrent funding crisis in discovering out establishments.
The proposed reforms seek to consolidate the Bigger Training and Loans Board (HELB) and all funds including scholarships and bursaries issued by Governors and legislators, every nationwide and sub-nationwide.
The advert-hoc committee is anticipated to relate its sage to Parliament within 90 days.
MPs nominated to take a seat within the committee encompass Samburu West MP Naisula Lesuuda ,Omboko Milemba(Emuhaya),Mary Emaase (Teso South), Stephen Mule (Matungulu), Elijah Njoroge (Gatundu North), Udgoon Siyyad (Wajir), Obara Eve (Kabondo Kasipul) and Titus Khamala (Lurambi).
Others encompass Charles Onchoke (Bonchari), Clive Gisairo (Kisii), Daniel Kiili (Matuga), Caroline Ngelechei (Elgeyo Marakwet), Reuben Kiborek (Mogotio), Jane Kagiri (Laikipia), Adan Keynan (Eldas), and Amina Mnyazi (Malindi).
