Kisumu Boys High School is being razed down during a fierce fire inferno, which broken out at the school, damaging the pavilion section.

The fire which started a few minutes to 8 pm also gutted a temporary structure near the assembly area.

It was not immediately clear what caused the late evenings fire but security officers moved to the scene in order to secure the area which is located within the Central Business District.

Fire fighters from the Kisumu firefighting department and those from the Kisunu International Airport also arrived at the scene.

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Nyanza Regional Director of Education,Nelson Sifuna who arrived at the scene of theincident said they were trying to find the cause of the fire. No casualties resulting from the incident had been reported at presstime.

The cause of the fire and the value of the destroyed property is yet to be known.

The incident comes barely a few hours after students of neighbouring Kisumu Girls high school were sent home following unrest yesterday.

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The Kisumu county government has employed 665 early childhood development education (ECDE) teachers on permanent and pensionable terms.

Governor Anyang Nyong’o said the teachers drawn from the seven sub-counties have been serving on a contract basis.

Nyong’o presided over the issuance of permanent and pensionable service letters to the teachers at the County Public Service Board office on Friday.

He lauded the teachers for working diligently to give academic nourishment to the children.

“As a reward for the good job they have done to our children, my Cabinet has decided to put all of them on permanent and pensionable terms,” Nyong’o said.

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“We have done this to motivate and enable the teachers to plan well as they realise their career development. You will no longer be worried about the renewal of your contracts.”

The teachers are now creditworthy and access loans for personal development.

Nyong’o said the employment has been done in strict observance of labour laws and all relevant legal statutes.

This, he said, was also in line with the resolutions of the Council of Governors (COG) in the ECDE sector.

Nyong’o said Kisumu joins Busia, Nyandarua, Nakuru and Bungoma counties that have their ECD teachers engaged on permanent and pensionable terms.

He pointed out that the management of Pre-primary Education in Kenya is placed under the county government as outlined in the Fourth Schedule of the constitution of Kenya 2010.

The Early Childhood Education Act 2021 in its entirety further outlines the involvement of the County Governments in terms of health and rights to Early Childhood Education.

In Kisumu County, there are 684 ECD centres of which 627 are anchored in Primary Schools and 57 are stand-alone public ECD centres.

The public ECD centres have a total enrolment of 52,818 children of whom 26,003 are girls and 26,815 are boys.

Nyong’o said his government has undertaken various measures to develop the sector and to ensure the foundational education is deeply entrenched.

He said the county has maintained support for the school feeding program by supplying rice and oil to all the ECD centres to complement the efforts of parents.

The intervention is aimed at improving their learning performance in schools through increased enrolment, retention, completion rate and 100 percent transition.

They also invested in the construction of standard classrooms with teachers’ rooms and toilets for the ECD children to learn in a good environment.

He pointed out that 60 percent of all schools have ECDE classes built by the County Government and very soon all the Centres will have classrooms constructed.

Nyong’o said the county has given priority to good sanitation to young learners to keep off diseases that crop in due to non-observance of hygiene.

He said the county’s health department undertakes vaccination against diseases, deworming and provision of vitamin A supplements half-yearly in all the ECD Centres.

The county also provides capitation to young learners to ensure quality education is achieved.

“It is also our responsibility to ensure quality education is accessible to our children through the distribution of stationery,” Nyong’o said.

He stated that they have supplied textbooks, exercise books, pencils, sharpeners and erasers to children in schools.

The county, he said, has distributed chairs and tables to ECD centres countywide to ensure children learn in a conducive environment.

He said the workforce is coordinated by officers at the county, sub-county and ward levels.

He outlined that his administration was committed to making Early Childhood education vibrant, saying it was the strongest foundation for education in society.

“Because of the great job the ECDE teachers were doing, I doubled their salaries, making them some of the best-paid teachers across the country,” he said.

Nyong’o urged teachers to exercise professionalism and decorum while discharging their duties of nurturing the young Kenyans.

“You will be under probation for six months and during this period your immediate supervisor will assess your suitability to continue serving, advise for extension of probation or termination of the contract,” he said.

He told the teachers to prove that his cabinet and the Public Service Board did not make a mistake by giving them permanent and pensionable terms.

“As role models in society, the children under your care depend on you for cognitive, social and spiritual development. Facilitate this to make Kisumu comparable to none,” Nyong’o said.

The more than 100-year-old Kisumu Boys High School, alongside other famous schools within Kisumu City will be demolished and moved outside the city centre

Kisumu Governor Anyang Nyong’o has maintained his argument that the schools add no economic value yet sit on prime land at the heart of the Kisumu city.

According Nyong’o, a city is a commercial place should be run as a profit-making entity.

“Considering the value of the place, that land needs to be useful. We need to construct an integrated urban centre rather than schools,” Nyong’o said.

The governor plans to relocate Kisumu boys to a 105 acres of land parcel in Kibos area. Kisumu Girls High School, Manyatta Arabs School, the Kisumu County Referral Hospital, the main bus terminus and the Jua Kali market will also be affected.

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“Each school has a field, a swimming pool and other amenities that have occupied large parcels of land.  Why don’t we take them to an area where schools share amenities? We don’t need to have a field for each school in a town.

“Five schools can have one field because they don’t use it all the time. Students from school A can use it the morning and in the afternoon school B brings its students,” Nyong’o said.

To justify his moves, the Kisumu county boss gave an example of the Kisumu ASK grounds in Mamboleo whose land was converted to a 30,000 capacity Jomo Kenyatta International Stadium in Kisumu.

“ASK show ground is an area of about 100 acres. It used to have a show of two weeks in a year and the rest of the year the 100 acres remained idle in the centre of the city,” he said.

“And now an investor has built ultramodern convention centre and the other one has expressed interest in constructing a hotel around the stadium,” he explained.

The project dubbed “Transforming Kisumu City through enhanced urban aesthetics”, intends to revamp the city’s economy and the services by improving the city’s drainage system, establishing an integrated solid waste management system, provision of green spaces within town and improving public health and sanitation.

The Kisumu County Referral Hospital will be merged with the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital.

The plan to demolish Kisumu Boys High school has been met with resistance as former students threaten legal action against the Kisumu County Government.

1. Automotive Association of Kenya driving school

It started training divers during the colonial era and is believed to have trained some of the pioneer political and professional elites of Africa. The school is believed to be older than all Kenyan citizens. The Kisumu branch is located at wedco center along Oginga Odinga street.

AA Kenya offers 30 intensive lessons at less than Kshs. 16000.

2. Rocky Driving School 

It has existed for over 30 years, with branches in all the major towns in Kenya. The Kisumu branch is located along Oginga Odinga street. Within Kisumu county however, there are other branches in Kombewa, Holo and Ahero.

Apart from the common vehicle classes, it also offers lessons for truck and heavy commercial drivers. Its trainers are always ready to go to the road and the only thing they are waiting for is you.

With Kshs. 9,500, one can get 20 driving lessons. What is the definition of being cheap?

3. Imperial driving school

This prestigious driving school is located on the ground floor of Al Imran plaza, at one of the extreme ends of Oginga Odinga street.

It specializes in both heavy commercial and lighter commercial vehicles and the charges mock the quality lessons that this academy offers.

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4. Sony Driving School 

This is another driving school that Kisumu county is proud of. The number of competent drivers it has produced has raised its reputation above imaginable levels. The fees are reasonable and any serious Kenyan can manage.

5. Lake Victoria driving school

Located at the heart of Kisumu city, this driving school ensures quality driving skills to its clients. It also assists the graduates get driving license within a very short time. The charges are manageable.