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Lobby groups urge government to compel schools to stop detaining KCSE certificates

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A section of Homa Bay education lobby groups read resolutions of civil societies advocating for education rights in the Nyanza region during their annual general meeting in Homa Bay Town. [James Omoro, Standard]

Civil Society organisations in the Nyanza region want the Ministry of Education to compel secondary school principals to release Form Four certificates withheld in schools to alleviate the affected youth from trauma.

They expressed concerns that thousands of youth in the region cannot pursue their future careers because their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) certificates have been detained in schools.

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