Boy child education endangered with more girls enrolling in Bungoma County

Written by Rosemary Wachiye 2011-06-04 17:16:00 Read 388 Times

Students of Sikusi high School in Bungoma. Photo/ West Fm/ File. A survey done in Bungoma County has revealed that most young men in informal business popularly known as bodaboda are school drop outs leading to a decline in the number of the male in schools. Mr. Aggrey Namisi the Secretary General of Kenya National Union for Teachers (KNUT) in Bungoma East stated that girl child education has been given priority in the country since the call for ‘gender equality’: this has contributed to the rise in the number of girls in schools versus the boys in the region. “In secondary schools the candidates registered for the Kenya Certificate for Secondary Education(KCSE) , the girls are  1,581 above the boys who are 1,526 while in primary schools, the registered candidates to sit fro Kenya Certificate of Primary Education(KCPE), the girls are 2,723 above the boys who are 2,606,” stated Mr.Namisi. Lugulu Girls Secondary entertaining guests and leaders at the muliro gardens Webuye during Madaraka Day celebrations. This statistics, he said, are evidence enough that if no action is taken towards boy child education, then sooner or later the number of educated men will drop. “This is a call for alarm because if many boys resort to dropping out of school in search for easy money then in future there will be no educated men from this region,” said Mr.Namisi. Speaking on the same issue, the District Commissioner Bungoma East, Mr. Adan Gedow, called upon the parents to cooperate in ensuring that there children go school and report any cases of students dropping out of school for the government to assist. “Parents should be on the forefront in promoting education and if there is any assistance they need they can report to my office,” said Mr.Gedow. “Education is key and in this era no one can do without it, and so I want to urge the people of Webuye to place education as their first priority in life,” said Mr.Gedow The DC also urged the politicians and other members of the public to leave politics out of the education sector and work together towards supporting all the leaning institutions. “Let us leave politics out of the education sector, politics will not develop that sector but instead will bring us down,” said Mr.Gedow.