Lorengelup Primary School in Turkana County was started in the year
1985 by the Government of Kenya with an intention of eradicating the
high levels of illiteracy in the local community. The current pupil’s
population is 150 in single streams with only Three Teachers Service
Commission teachers and four teachers employed by Parents Teachers Association.
The school’s infrastructure includes a staffroom, three mud-walled
classrooms and teachers’ quarters all of which are thatched. These
mud-walled classes were established tens of years back and have served
as the sole source of learning structure available to the whole primary
school that is complete with KCPE examination candidates. At times, the
school administration is forced to have pupils of different classes
occupy this so called classroom with one class facing the other end of
the wall and the other facing the other. This has paralyzed teaching in
this primary school as teachers have to wait for one to get out since it
is practically impossible to have them teach different classes in the
same structure at the same time. This becomes even worse during rainy
seasons when the mad is brought down rendering the classes no longer
conducive for teaching and learning.
As the debate on whether the
Jubilee laptop project is a good idea to warrant a huge allocation of
Ksh 53 billion continues to elicit mixed reactions, schools in Northern
Kenya remain dumb as to what it means to have a laptop when you need a
rooftop for the classroom. The only reason the Jubilee government is
sticking to the laptop issue is because they mentioned it during the
campaigns and cannot therefore run away from their words. They believe
in kusema na kutenda forgetting the government is putting its priorities
upside down.
Ekai Nabenyo is a law student at the University of Nairobi and blogs at
INFORMING KENYANS- www.ekainabenyo.blogspot.com
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