Education CS told to be fully in charge and address schools unrest

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Former President of East African Law Society Senior Counsel James Aggrey Mwamu addressing participants during a past event-Photo Courtesy
 

By Dickson Odhiambo

June 10, 2026

Education CS told to be fully in charge and address schools unrest

The Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education has been told to be fully in charge of the Ministry.

Former President of the East African Law Society James Aggrey Mwamu says the Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos Ogamba must assert his feet and ensure that he is fully in charge of the Ministry.

Addressing the press at his office in Kisumu, Mwamu said the Cabinet Secretary must come out as the face of the Government on the issue of the ongoing strikes in the schools countrywide.

He has accused the CS of been overshadowed by his immediate former Principal Secretary Prof. Julius Bitok who has since been moved to the State Department of Tourism.

Mwamu says the PS’s sentiment on the need by schools’ administration to negotiate with learners on whether they want to do exams or not was very much out of order and should not have come out from a person of his caliber.

He says the schools’ Principals should engage all the stakeholders in the Education Sector to see away on how to tackle the students’ strike that has affected many schools across the country.

“The schools’ administration should engage various stakeholders including parents, Knut, Kuppet, Ministry of Education, students among other through a dialogue so as to see a way out of the issues that currently affects various schools across the country,” Mwamu says.

Mwamu says the schools administrations should do this so as to get the root cause of these problems in various schools.

“This is a societal problem and all the stakeholders should be engaged in a meaningful manner and get the root cause of this problem,”Mwamu adds.

Mwamu has strongly lauded a section of schools across the country where students have come out strongly to condemn the ongoing students’ unrest that has resulted to closure of some schools across the country.

He has particularly singled out Migori Boys High school for being brave and courageous in condemning students’ unrests.

Mwamu has urged students not to engage in any act of lawlessness such like burning down of schools, adding that this is not the best way to solve their grievances.

 

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