Former University of Nairobi Vice-Chancellor Peter Mulwa Mbithi, who served in the function from 2015 to 2019, has actually been designated to chair a 52-member job group charged with examining repeating discontent in schools throughout the nation.
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba revealed the consultations in a Gazette notification dated Friday, October 23, detailing the group’s subscription, required and regards to service.
“The Task Team will survive for a duration of ninety (90) days from the date of publication of this notification,” the notification specified.
According to the notification, the group will run for 90 days, throughout which it will examine previous reports on school discontent, evaluate spaces in carrying out previous suggestions and examine the instant and hidden reasons for the 2026 events that interfered with knowing and required schools throughout the nation to close.
Former University of Nairobi Vice-Chancellor Peter Mulwa Mbithi offers a speech throughout a previous occasion.
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Its required likewise consists of examining school security requirements and emergency situation readiness procedures, examining boarding school management and facilities, taking a look at the price of uniforms, and examining links in between school discontent, education financing and school costs.
Members will even more evaluate trainee discipline, counselling services, psychological health assistance, student well-being and the responsibility of school administrators, moms and dads, education authorities and other stakeholders.
The group is needed to send month-to-month development reports to the CS and a last report at the end of its term, while likewise welcoming views from education stakeholders and members of the general public.
Other visits made in the notification consist of numerous popular figures in education and academic community, amongst them previous Maseno University VC Julius Nyabundi, Council of Legal Education (CLE) chairperson Collins Odote and Kenyatta University Associate Professor Jackline Nyerere.
Dr Purity Ngina, who acquired nationwide acknowledgment in 2018 as Kenya’s youngest PhD graduate at the age of 28, was likewise selected to the group.
Instructor and moms and dad agents likewise include in the group, consisting of Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General Collins Henry Oyuu and National Parents Association (NPA) chair Silas David Obuhatsa.
Assistant Inspector General of Police George Lenny Kisaka, previous Nairobi County education executive Janet Ouko and Leila Abdi Ali, who has actually formerly served under the Teachers Service Commission, were likewise selected
Other employee of the job group consist of Abdulahi Hassan, Agnes Ngonyo, Allan Sitima, Alphonse Kanga, Andiwo Obondoh, Anita Kiptum, Boaz Omori Munga, Boniface Ndirangu, Charles Kyalo Mutinda, Charles Sai Tabau, Cleophas Ondieki, Edward Obwocha, Elizabeth Chepchumba Birgen, Ernest Alela, F. E. Mathe, Faraja Precious, Gloria Edna Wawira, along with previous Busia County executive Kizito Wangalwa.
Furthermore, the notification noted James Nyabuto Ombati, Jane Mwangi, Joseph Patrick Kitur, Joseph Wasikhongo, Kepha Nyandega, Lydia Macharia, Margaret Nyambura Njaggah, Mary Mwandi, Mercy Igoki, Mohamed Ibrahim Abdullahi, Monicah Orero, Nicholas Muasya, Nicodemus Mutuku Musyoka, Olipha Omburi Nyakhuru, Paul Wandere, Peter Karanja, Purity Mbaabu, Rose Eteye, Ruth Ngonyoku, Simon Mwangi Muita, Sujatha Kotamraju, Tioko Lorgion and Titus Yego.
8 joint secretaries have actually likewise been selected to support the job group, with Head of the Directorate of Secondary Education William Sugut designated as the lead secretary.
Other selected secretaries consist of Joshua Wabwire, Christine Siranga, Faith Nkatha, Gikambi Zipporah Kawira, Hellen Avisa, Kindi Seyianoi Monicah and Rashid Mohammed.
The consultations come months after Ogamba revealed strategies in June to develop the multi-stakeholder group in the middle of increasing cases of trainee discontent and school fires that interfered with knowing in about 204 secondary schools throughout the nation.
A partially scorched area of the dorm structure at Utumishi Girls in Nakuru, May 28, 2026.
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