It is a huge boost for Form One students in Kisii County after Governor Simba Arati announced that he will release KSh78 million in bursaries to cater for their education.
Arati while speaking at Kisii town on Wednesday July 3, where he addressed the residents during his meet-the people tour revealed the money will be distributed equally among the 45 wards in the county.
He said that the form one students were left out in the early dispatch of the county education bursary done early this year for students in form two up to four because they had not settled in school to process the application forms.
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At the same time, he expressed dismay on the goons who took advantage in the peaceful GenZ protest to loot people’s property urging the police to take care of people and their property.
The governor and his entourage had earlier visited casualties of the protest that took place on Tuesday which left one man dead and several others admitted in hospital for treatment.
He defended the GenZ for exercising their democratic right by carrying out peaceful demonstrations while bashing the goons who he said were transported from others parts of the country to bring chaos in the county.
He was flanked by MCAs who included Majority leader Henry Moracha, Wilfred Monyenye( Kisii Central ward)Duke Nyarang’o( Kitutu Central)Steve Arika ( Ibeno) and Ibrahim Mose of Bobaracho Ward.
Moracha requested the governor to waver the hospital bills for those who are undergoing treatment and the burial expenses of one man who died during the protest.
“The county government should shoulder all the expense that will be incurred in these misfortunes,” he said.
According to the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital CEO Narita Oumeke the facility admitted people among them a primary school teacher and an expectant mother with a pregnancy of 34 weeks with different levels of injuries.
He said 22 of them were still in the wards, eight were treated and discharged, and other two are in the theatre room in critical conditions with one reported death.
By Enock Okong’o
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