REPORT ON THE WARD TO WARD VISIT
BY H.E THE GOVERNOR PROF.PAUL CHEPKWONY, HIS DEPUTY H.E SUSAN KIKWAI AND OTHER
COUNTY OFFICIALS AT KAPSUSER WARD.
The ward visit continues today where his H.E Prof Paul
Chepkwony and H.E Susan Kikwai visits the entire Kapsuser ward, where he
addressed several issues including, Early Childhood Development under the
Ministry of Education, Dispensaries under the Ministry of Health, ICT, Agriculture,
Road development and Devolution at large. He visited different villages within
the ward. The governor was tagged along with different the County Executive
Committees from different ministries. The CEC’s present also assisted in
addressing the developments in their various ministries and also put across
what they are intending to develop.
Kapnandet Primary school.
This was the governor’s first stopover. This is a developing
school and this year they are having their first candidates to sit for the
K.C.P.E examinations. The school has a population of 265 pupils, 129girls and
136 boys. It was started in the year 2008. The school also comprised of an ECD
program, where they encouraged the villagers from around to enroll their children.
The county government together with the ministry of education assisted to build
a class for the ECD and also employed a teacher for them. The county gave out
three hundred thousand for the building of the class and it was evident, an
extra two thousand is to be given out for the completion of the block.
Kapnandet ECD centre.
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The head teacher of the school addressed several challenges
including lack of ICT facilities like a laptop or a desktop that will the ease
e-learning process in the institution, also she added that the floors of the
classrooms were in a bad state and that the government should help repair since
the can increase the spread of jiggers to the pupils. “More teachers should be
recruited for the ECD since more children are joining the school and there are
few teachers,” said the head teacher.
The governor on his side, thanked both the school committee
and the administration for utilitizing the funds that were allocated to the
building of the ECD classroom and for that he promised to add them more two
hundred thousand shilling which adds up to a half a million that will make the
classroom complete. He gave out stationary including rulers, pens and erasers
to class eight candidates.