MP Ndakwa to Revamp all Senior Schools in Malava

By Wakhungu Andaje Secondary schools within Malava are set to undergo major rehabilitation to upgrade their status.

This is according to the Mp David Ndakwa, who made the remarks during the academic meeting with all the 53 principals heading senior schools within the constituency.

Ndakwa who was receiving the constituency’s schools status report through the (NG-CDF) office led by its fund manager Humphrey Sechero and which entails all the designated key projects meant for implementation said he was concerned about the ‘rotten’ status of most of the schools within.

The Mp said with the presentation of each school status report it will be easier to identify which of the highlighted projects within the schools would be given implementation priority.

He said with the reports being presented at the fund manager for scrutiny and classification it will be easy for the office to identify which ones needed urgent attention in each school.

Ndakwa said he was giving education all the necessary attention needed hence his move to set up an education advisory board that will be working with him to improve on the quality of education in the constituency.

He said the formation of the advisory committee led by Shamberere national polytechnic chief principal Elisha Nyamu is a transparent move meant to openly deliberate and execute education matters within the Malava (NG-CDF) jurisdiction.

The Malava constituency development fund manager (NG-CDF) Humphrey Sechero while receiving the projects development files from Principals, advised the principals against requests for storey buildings as they were costly and could only be awarded to one institution at a time denying others an opportunity for their projects to be considered respectively.

Sechero observed that the institutions status reports proposals will be factored in the (2026/27) financial report which will be due in two to three months from now. The manager noted that land for expansion has been one of the major setbacks in many schools across the constituency.

“For those schools wishing to be bought land by the (NG-CDF), let them ensure that the land has a title deed, valuation from the government valuer to determine the price, as well as the residents and management of the school management to attend public participation and support the implementation of the purported project as key priority to have their proposals captured in the constituency development fund committee (CDFC) minutes” he directed.

Malava NG-CDF manager Humphrey Sechero,(left), Chairman of the newly formed Malava education advisory board Elisha Nyamu,Malava Mp David Ndakwa and Subcounty director of education Rose Chisumi gracing the occasion. /Wakhungu Andaje 

He also said plans were underway to set up an ICT hub in each ward to improve digital literacy. “Already we are transforming part of the Malava constituency (NG-CDF) office to be an ICT hub where those interested in online jobs and training can come and use the facility”, he said. 

According to the principals representing their harnessed key projects in their respective zones, the West Kabras representative Rose Abuko who is also the Principal Malava girls suggested that schools within their area of operation should diversify the three pathways to different institutions that has the capacity to offer each of the three pathways, (STEM, social sciences and arts).

Let those schools that have the capacity to host arts be uplifted to the needed standards where other schools will be holding their arts lessons and so do the other institutions, this is to enable that the zone offers all the three pathways.

The central zone which was represented by Principal Namanja Kulecho Memeti complained of the road networks within that hampered mobility.

The zone also requested for the elevation of some of the 8 senior schools to county as they all fell under C4. It also cited the issue of staffing in schools, as well as the construction of ICT hubs to scale up the digital literacy besides calling for the sensitization of the community to embrace education.

Principal SDA Namagara who was representing the North Kabras zone called out for the establishments of workshops to offer practical to technical subjects including woodwork, metalwork, building and construction and electricity as the subjects directly conforms to the (CBE) syllabus.

At the same time the Chief Principal Friends Malava Boys Moses Moyi raised issues with the schools 2025 (K.C.S.E) where the candidates results are purportedly shortchanged and downgraded contrary to their known overall performance.

He said he had written to the Kenya national examination council (KNEC),complaining about the skewed results