By EUGENE OMILO
Leaders in Mombasa
have called on the Ministry of Education to increase the number of girls only public schools in the county to
match the rising demand of placements.
Transport Assistant Minister Hassan Ali Joho and Shariff Nassir
Foundation chairman Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir said many pupils aspiring to
study in girls only schools missed out on the opportunity due to lack of
adequate schools.
Speaking during a ceremony to celebrate the elevation of Mama Ngina
Girls High
School from a provincial to a national school,
Joho reaffirmed his commitment towards improving on educational infrastructure
in the county.
He said a new girls only school built using CDF funds will
be opened later this month in Utange, a remote village within Kisauni
constituency to help fill the gap.
“We are ready to support education because we know it is the
only undiminishing inheritance that we can pass on to our children,” he said.
His sentiments were echoed by Mr. Nassir who also called on
the mobilization of necessary resources to Mama Ngina high school to help the
school compete fairly with other national schools in the country.
“Getting a prestigious status alone is not enough, we need
to marshal resources to equip our schools with the necessary facilities that
characterize national schools,” he said.
At the same time, the leaders also called on the government
to investigate claims about groups planning to disrupt the coming national
examinations.
“Let our children use this opportunity to define their
future, we need to support them and not to frustrate them during this time,”
said Joho.
The school’s
principal Mrs. Rassul Samba said she is grateful of the insurmountable support
that the school has received from various quarters but called for more
financial assistance saying being the only public girls boarding school in the
county, the school faced more infrastructural challenges including land for
expansion.
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