Why we should not leave behind children of northern Kenya

NAIROBI: As President Uhuru Kenyatta and his high-powered delegation enjoyed the adulation of crowds at Katulu Primary School in Machakos County yesterday while commissioning the National Schools Electrification Project, hundreds of miles away in North Eastern, head teachers were asking the Government to close all schools in the region and suspend national exams scheduled for the end of the year. This is because schools in the area have remained closed for the better part of the year due to rampant insecurity.

From a professional point of view, the call by head teachers is well meaning, because students who have missed lessons cannot be expected to sit exams for which they are not adequately prepared.