Print Media Archives - Shule Yangu

It should worry us all that in 2019 public schools in Kenya still face the risk of being dispossessed of land through grabbing, encroachment and never-ending court battles. Demand for land is high and continues to grow which has increased value exponentially. This makes public school land often in prime areas a target for grabbing

Education lobby group, together with the stakeholders have been challenged to target the titling of 10,000 schools this year. Lands CS Farida Karoney made the appeal to the officials of Shule Yangu Alliance after they paid her a courtesy call at Ardhi House on Friday. The CS asked the officials and boards of management of

This week I was excited to be a guest of Moi Girls High School in Eldoret. Nearly 90 years old, Afrikaans speaking settlers from South Africa established the 109-acre school in 1928. It would take thirty-five years for the first African girl to be admitted. Today, 1,300 girls from all over Kenya study here. They walk in

By EDITORIAL, published in DAILY NATION The issuance of land titles to public schools could not have come at a more appropriate moment. Public schools are under dire stress of losing land to the shadowy euphemistically called private developers, who are but plunderers of national resources. At the start of the campaign, Lands Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi presented

By JESSICAH NYABOKE, published in THE STAR Lands CS Jacob Kaimenyi on Friday reaffirmed the government’s commitment to issue more than 1,000 title deeds to public schools across the country. He said many public schools do not have land ownership documents. Kaimenyi said the Rapid Response Programme was launched in January this year and has helped

By FRED KIBOR and NAOMI SUMUKWO, published in STANDARD DIGITAL In January 2015, Kenyans were treated to a shocking incident in which pupils of Langata Road Primary School were teargassed and activists arrested as they attempted to reclaim grabbed school land. It offered a sneak preview into the land-grabbing menace that has come to haunt