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Lari MP Mburu Kahangara addressing his constituents at Kirenga stadium
By George Mugo
Parents from all day secondary schools in Lari constituency are happy after their legislator Mburu Kahangara launched a tap to eat program.
The program will require them to pay Sh15 only everyday for their children to be fed at school.
Kahangara says the program will leave the huge amount of money parents pay for feeding programs at different schools reduced.
“We had schools which used to require a parent to pay for each student Sh5,000 per term for feeding program. While they pay Sh15 per day, that translates to Sh1,200 per month” he said.
During the launch of the program at Kirenga stadium, the legislator said other fees which parents pay will be paid by the bursary kitty, meaning that the huge burden that the parents have been having will be reduced.
He was accompanied by visiting MPs John Kiragu (Limuru) and Githua Wamacukuru (Kabete), Lari director of education Benjamin Muthengi, parents association chairman Samuel Wanjema among others.
“We are so happy for the support. We have never been remembered by any legislator there before like how Kahangara and his team have done” said Salome Wanja, a parent with 2 students in a day secondary school.
Wanjema applauded the legislator saying parents do not have a reason for allowing children of school going age to stay at home.
“No one should allow his or her children to stay at home. We have all the reasons to take our children to school. Teachers are being paid by the government, food is almost free, we have bursaries and other support” he noted.
Lari Deputy County Commissioner Samuel Kariuki warned parents that his office was working hand in hand with nyumba kumi initiative officials to ensure all school going children are at school.
He warned parents whoever will be named that his children are not in school will be questioned by relevant arms of the government.
In the same event, 5,000 colleges, universities and boarding secondary school students were issued with bursary cheques.
Kahangara told the parents that, from next month, the same program will be extended to primary schools, so as to ensure learners are in the classroom in the afternoon.
Limuru MP urged the locals to support president William Ruto’s government, saying it had created so many chances where locals can benefit.
He noted that the government had allowed them to partner with its arms, and its supporters to improve the livelihood of parents and students in programs like tap to eat.
Kahangara at the same time thanked locals for electing him on the ruling party’s ticket UDA.
He told them that since the multiparty was introduced in this country in 1992, the constituency has been in the opposition until 2007, when he was elected on a TNA ticket when former President Uhuru Kenyatta took over the power.
“Since that time until today, we have been in the government. We have seen a lot of projects being done easily. Even today we have several which are ongoing like the Mau Mau road” he noted.
He pleaded with them to always have a jealously of electing an MP who was in the government of the day, since he or she has a negotiating power.
Kahangara has been launching the tap to eat program this week at different wards of Lari Kirenga, Kijabe, Kinale, Nyanduma and Kamburu.
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