Ksm County Education and Social Protection Fund Bill sails through second reading

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The Speaker of the County Assembly of Kisumu Elisha Oraro leaves the Assembly on Wednesday after it adopted the amendments in the Kisumu County Education and Social Protection Fund Bill 2026-Photo and Story By Dickson Odhiambo

 August 20, 2026

Ksm County Education and Social Protection Fund Bill sails through second reading

The Kisumu County Education and Social Protection Fund Bill, 2026 has gone through a second reading stage successfully at the County Assembly of Kisumu.

The Bill seeks to repeal the Kisumu County Education Fund Act {No 8 of 2014} and the Kisumu County Education Funds {Amendment} Act {No. 6 of 2016} to establish the Kisumu County Education and Social Protection Fund and for connected purposes.

During the Committee of the whole House sitting at the County Assembly of Kisumu presided over by the Deputy Speaker Nereah Okombo on Wednesday, the Members of the County Assembly passed the amendments of some sections of the Bill during the second reading.

Members of the County Assembly of Kisumu agreed with most of the amendments made by the Chair of the Education Committee Seth Okumu and Seconded by Billy Ochieng from Kobura Ward.

The bill now has 45 sections after the amendments made from its initial 48 sections during the second reading.

The Bill now moves to the Third Reading after the amendments made during its second reading were adopted as part of the Bill.

Speaking after the session, Education Committee Chair Seth Okumu said the Bill seeks to strengthen the issue of scholarship and bursary awarded by the County Government of Kisumu.

Okumu says part of the Bill has a section that allows the County Government of Kisumu to enter into partnership agreements for the purpose of achieving its objective once it becomes an Act.

He says once it becomes an Act, it will encompass the payment of scholarship and bursary for both functions that are devolved and those that are not devolved.

Okumu says the current Act which is set to be repealed expired in the year 2024 after ten years of its enactment in the year 2014 hence prompted the coming up of the Kisumu County Education and Social Protection Fund Bill, 2026, adding that its process begun in the year 2025.

The Education Committee Chair at the County Assembly of Kisumu is optimistic that within the next few weeks, the County Assembly will pass the Bill and it will become an Act which will be operational.

He says a total of 2 percent of the total Budget for the County Government of Kisumu will be allocated to the Scholarship and Bursary once the Act will be in place.

He says currently a total of 10 students per ward are awarded scholarship under the current act, adding that an estimated 800 students per ward are benefitting from the Bursary being awarded yearly.

 

 

 

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