'Government is grabbing Church schools'

Member churches of the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) have accused the national government of grabbing their schools.

Speaking in Imenti North, the church leaders said the Government had taken over schools they had constructed and also took over their management.

NCCK Deputy Secretary General Nelson Makanda and Methodist Church of Kenya Bishop Catherine Mutua said the State should hand back the schools.

"We are greatly shocked at the blatant grabbing of church schools by the Government through the Basic Education Act 2013. This grabbing is being accomplished by declaration of sponsored schools to be public institutions and issuing title deeds in the name of education boards," said the statement read by Bishop Mutua.