Otiende Amollo pushes Rarieda principals to draft memo on education crisis ahead of CS meeting
By Eric Juma, February 20, 2026Rarieda Constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Otiende Amollo has asked Rarieda principals to craft a memorandum on issues derailing education and forward it to him to introduce it as an agenda item in their next week’s discussions with Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba.
In a statement made on Thursday, February 10, 2026, during the bursary disbursement to students, Otiende noted that gaps are evident in capitation and certain policies driving the education sector, and that, if not checked, they would frustrate schools’ operations.
“I would like the induction meeting of the Rarieda principals to end with members crafting a memorandum with issues derailing effective delivery of education matters to form part of our discussion next week.
“We want a clear memorandum with an agenda to guide our discussions during our meeting with the Education CS and PS next week. When doing interrogation next week, we should end up with results that ensure smooth running of the education sector,” Otiende said.
The lawmaker faulted some policies in the Education sector that he claimed were frustrating school operations.
“The many policies in the Education sector do not favour the running of the institutions; the maximum amount of money received as capitation per child is between Ksh 14000- Ksh 16,000, instead of Ksh 22,000, which we had recommended. It’s so sad that only three-quarters of the capitation ends in schools. Even the Ksh 16000 is reduced to Ksh 14,000, yet records in schools read Ksh 16,000,” he stated.
“One of the policies is that teachers to admit students without fee and uniform or not to send any student back home to collect fee and when student gets to form four and sat for exams, they are not allowed to hold their certificates even when they are owed,” Otiende added.
It’s the difficult circumstances that has made me to come to your rescue through the disbursement of the bursary funds. Otiende spoke in Rarieda while disbursing Ksh 38 million bursary funds to students.
“I will not end my tenure till schools get fenced, gated, facelifted. Ever since I became the MP have tried to transform schools and increased the bursary from the previous allocation of Ksh 9 million to now Ksh 38 million,” he stated
The commissioned projects and bursary funds disbursed has costed Ksh 55 million.
He was accompanied by Rarieda NG-CDF accounts manager Ken Chacha who revealed that students with higher bursary amounts of Ksh 10,000 scored higher points or quality grades while those who got Ksh 3000, attained garde E.