Leaders call for fairness in bursary allocations

Meru county leaders want the national government to harmonise the issuance of bursary funds to curb duplication and ghost applicants.

Speaking during the launch of the National Government Affirmative Action Funds in Meru town, North Imenti MP Rahim Dawood and Meru Woman Representative Elizabeth Kailemia said all the bursaries should be consolidated and managed by the Ministry of Education since they were all meant to help needy school-going Kenyans.

They argued that the Ministry has the details of all the learners and knows deserving cases better than anybody else including politicians who were at the moment handling them.

“All the data about the learners should be consolidated in a pool from where bursaries will be issued instead of having multiple sources. Bursaries from the MCAs, governors, MPs, and Jomo Kenyatta Foundation among others should be centralised to avoid duplication where some students are getting more than three bursaries while others miss out on the funding,” he said.