Governor Wanga Explains How She Involved Locals to Build 163 Classrooms in 90 days

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Governor Wanga Explains How She Involved Locals to Build 163 Classrooms in 90 days
Governor Wanga Explains How She Involved Locals to Build 163 Classrooms in 90 days

Africa-Press – Kenya. Homa Bay governor Gladys Wanga recently celebrated the completion of an ambitious multi-million shilling project to improve the quality of education in the county through the construction of modern early childhood education (EYE) classrooms.

Dubbed the Ondoa Kaunda Initiative, the project utilised a labour-intensive model in a bid to kill two birds with one stone by erecting modern educational infrastructure while employing Homa Bay residents at the same time.

Similar to President William Ruto’s Climate WorX initiative, the Ondoa Kaunda project mainly snubbed the conventional contracting methods to build the classrooms, with the governor embarking on a labour-based economic stimulus program.

“We sent money to all the 163 schools and the locals run the program themselves. They found local contractors, brought local labour and paid everything locally,” the governor said.

Launched on July 10, 2024,the project is on the verge of marking its three-month anniversary. One of its key objectives was to have at least three new classrooms in each of the 40 wards in Homa Bay’s eight sub-counties.

“We initiated the labour-based system of Ondoa Kaunda classrooms on 10th July 2024 at God Ndonyo in Kibiri Ward,” the governor observed. “Today, 90 days since we started the initiative, we have built a total of 163 classrooms. That’s 4 classrooms per ward.”

According to the governor, her administration undertook a rapid-results formula to build the classrooms within three months since the county was seriously lacking in terms of educational infrastructure.

“When we came to Homa Bay, we only had three classrooms completed in the last 10 years. That is why we saw it fit to run a rapid results initiative. Since we came in two years ago, we now have 243 classes we have done to completion.”

The governor targets at least 500 classes by the time she completes her first term in office.

The governor’s latest project came just months after she clarified claims about demolishing a Ksh100 million factory to pave the way for the construction of her office.

The governor in August termed the reports as inaccurate stating that the factory in question was demolished for not meeting mandatory construction standards.

Further, she revealed plans to repurpose or complete all projects left unfinished by the previous administration to maximise public funds’ value.

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