Kericho senator Aaron Cheruiyot on Friday told bar owners operating near school compounds to close and relocate elsewhere.
Senator Cheruiyot attributed poor performance in Kericho schools to the influence of ills in the surrounding like alcoholism and drug taking among school-going children.
"Any bar within 300 meters of a school should be relocated elsewhere," Senator Cheruiyot said.
He put bar owners on notice that they risked forfeiting their beer businesses if they failed to honour relocation orders.
He attributed poor education performance to anti-education practices similar to those witnessed in bars.
Senator Cheruiyot said he is set to have an education stakeholders meeting aimed at addressing the declining standards of education in Kericho.
Lauding Laliat Day mixed secondary for being the best-improved school in last year's KCPE in Kericho but regretted that the general overview in Kericho was below par.
Ainamoi MP Benjamin Langat lashed out at his critics for establishing of more schools instead of developing the existing ones.
He described them as individuals who did not buy the idea of a 100 per cent transition from primary to secondary schools.
He described Laliat mixed secondary school as an example of an institution which accommodated more KCPE students who would otherwise have not gotten a place in form one due shortage of secondary schools.
"My long-term plan is to have more secondary schools established in Ainamoi bore fruits, Laliat secondary is an example of such a school that admitted KCPE leavers who would otherwise have missed chances of joining secondary education," MP Benjamin Langat said
He said his electorates were for developing existing schools and not establishing new ones.
On Sunday, the MP said the many secondary schools had paved the way for 100 per cent transition in Ainamoi.
