KESSHA stakeholders have warned that the government's delay in releasing school capitation on time will cause serious financial and operational issues for institutions across the country.
According to the former KESSHA chair, Kai Indimuli, who spoke during a public event on Sunday, July 27, the mounting debts in schools, due to decreasing and delayed capitation, will not only cripple school heads' ability to run the institutions effectively but will also lead some institutions to be auctioned.
Despite the Association penning a petition to parliament to see the capitation of schools being elevated, Indimuli claims that no action has been taken. "Just before I exited service, we sat down together with other association heads and wrote a petition to parliament to show that since 2019, schools have been receiving less capitation and that at the time we were doing the petition, schools were owed Ksh68 billion," Indimuli said.
President William Ruto with school students.
