Second term capitation to be released this month – Machogu

Basic Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has announced that schools will receive capitation for the second term in the course of June. 

Machogu spoke on Thursday when he launched the fourth National Education Sector Strategic Plan 2023-27. 

"We are at an advanced stage of ensuring that second term capitation will be released in the course of this month. No school will close because 50 per cent capitation was given to both primary and secondary schools," he said. 

The CS said schools received capitation in two batches in the first term, making up 50 per cent of the total capitation expected. 

Machogu said schools should expect a 30 per cent capitation for the second term. 

"The final term which will be the third term we will be able to give the remaining 20 per cent," he said. 

Further, Machogu denied that universities across the country are facing a cash crunch of up to Sh29 billion. 

The CS said universities will receive more capitation before the financial year ends. 

" We are not having any such problem in universities. If there is one sub-sector that the government has done very well in giving out capitation it is in our universities and also moving forward, before the end of the financial year, we will release some more," Machogu said.

"We have not had any problem as far as our release of capitation for universities is concerned."

Additionally, Machogu said the government has availed some funds for construction of Junior Secondary School classes. 

"We have released some money, Sh3.5 billion and early next financial year we will release more," he said. 

"So we can say we have comfortably started. The first batch of classes should be complete in four months and we will start another batch in about two months." 

Machogu said by the end of the year the ministry will have availed between 16,000 to 18,000 classrooms. 

The CS said whatever resources the ministry is given will be directed to the intended purposes they are meant for.