President William Ruto has promised that his government will build 30 more classrooms in Roysambu Primary School which hosts about 3,400 school children.
Speaking in Roysambu on Tuesday during the launch of the school feeding programme, Ruto told Education CS Ezekiel Machogu to look for contractors who will build the classrooms.
“We are going to commit Sh25 million to build the 30 classrooms and they must be ready in the next 120 days. So look for a contractor to come and do that job,” Ruto said.
He said that the classrooms will reduce congestion in the school and allow the admission of more students.
The president said that Nairobi has fewer schools compared to other counties.
“Nairobi with 17 constituencies is having the same number of schools with one constituency in another place. This is tragic,” Ruto said.
He told education CS Machogu to sit down with Nairobi MPs and come up with ways to build more classrooms in the county.
“We need to build extra 6,000 classrooms because we need to double the enrollment of school children in Nairobi County,” Ruto said.
Nairobi has 286 public schools, out of which 205 are primary institutions and the remaining 81 are secondary schools.
