MP Wamuchomba goes after principals who don’t give students their certificates and result slips.
MP Wamuchomba goes after principals who don’t give students their certificates and result slips.
Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba criticized school principals on Tuesday for a new trend in which some of them have been keeping students’ certificates and result slips because they haven’t paid their school fees.
The outspoken lawmaker said on her X account that school heads were holding important papers from students who still owed money on their fees.
She said that this meant that most of the students missed out on chances to get into universities and colleges.
Wamuchomba says that this group of school principals is breaking the law because there is no constitutional clause that lets principals and school heads hold on to the papers in any situation.
The MP said she had to step in to help some kids in her district who had been experiencing this. The MP felt bad that she couldn’t help people outside of her sub-county in the same way.
“Most students miss out on chances to go to college or university because their result slips are being held by secondary schools because they are behind on fees.” Which law is this that Kenyan secondary schools are following?” The MP asked a question.
“You mean that building classrooms or getting a school bus is more important than a student’s future who already gave you everything they could,”
Later, Wamuchomba asked if the unpaid fees could be turned into loans that the students could pay back later.
The member of parliament said that a child or student’s result slip is their property and not the school’s property.
The lawmaker was adamant about the issue and said that the fee payment was a deal between the school and the parents and shouldn’t involve the kids.
“Unfortunately, the systems that are supposed to help students from poor backgrounds continue to treat them badly,” Wamuchomba said.
I feel bad for the kids who can’t speak up. “I wish I could help more,” the MP said.
Concerns have been raised about the slow entry of students in universities, even though the government has told schools that students can be admitted even if they haven’t paid their fees. This is what MP Wamuchomba feels.
In his order from August 21, Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos said again that all qualified students would be admitted, even if they couldn’t pay the household payment right away.
“The Ministry of Education wants to let all students who have met the requirements to go to college know that they are guaranteed a spot at the schools they want, even if they can’t pay the household contribution right away.” “As a result, vice chancellors of public universities have been told to let all qualified students in,” part of the notice read.
MP Wamuchomba goes after principals who don’t give students their certificates and result slips.
