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Parents decry delay in renovation of Juja school classrooms

Parents decry delay in renovation of Juja school classrooms
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Parents from Mutundu Primary School in Juja, Kiambu county are up in arms with the area NG-CDF leaders after they demolished classrooms forcing learners to study under the sun.

The George Koimburi-led office is said to have demolished structures of the school in October last year to rebuild them for a better learning environment but the project has never taken off since.

According to parents, their children have been studying outside classes and when it rains, they are bundled in one class in what they said has disrupted learning activities.

The irked parents who stormed the school that is only 30-kilometers from Nairobi before they were repulsed by armed police officers accused Koimburi who is also the area MP of ignoring the institution in development matters.

Led by Onesmus Ngige, the irate parents further took issue with the poor management of the school and which they regretted operating without a national flag, requisite fence among other key necessities.

They decried that their children travel kilometers to fetch water from rivers and swamps for school use blaming the challenges to the dismal performance that the institution has continued to register.

“Our school is in a deplorable state and our children have been suffering for quite some time now. The situation was however made worse after Juja CDF demolished the roof of the classes promising to install new ones immediately but nothing has been done since October last year,” said Ngige.

At the same time, the furious parents lamented that the school is on the verge of losing its watchman after the school head delayed the release of his Sh 24,000 salary arrears which they vowed to have contributed.

“We have been paying our watchman every term. It’s sad that despite having contributed, the school owes him Sh 24,000 and is now threatening to quit job,” Tabby Anne, another parent said.

Meanwhile, the angry parents vowed to thwart the alleged scheme to grab part of the school land by a section of leaders who have been salivating for it to a point of changing the parcel beacons.

They said that the grabbers have been salivating for the prime land to sell to unsuspecting buyers.

The Constituency curriculum development officer who spoke to journalists off the camera however dismissed some of the allegations levelled by parents accusing them of politicizing the operation of the school.

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