Hon. Capt Ruweida Mohammed with Team Distributing Busary Cheques at Kenyatta Universty Coast Campus.
Bursary and Cheque distribution in Lamu East Constituency.
In last year’s KCSE exams (2022-2023) the whole constituency just garnered a single B- with Zero C+ and several C- and below grades.
During the Campaigns period Hon. Capt. Ruweida Mohamed Obo, who is a commercial pilot holding Commercial Pilot License promised that she will give key attendance notes on Education, Equality of Bursary distribution from the previous regime where a single student was given up to Ksh. 70,000 whereas others received Ksh.5,000 or Ksh.10,000 in sec schools.
Capt. Ruweida currently she is in closely monitoring bursary distribution to honor her pledges during the campaigns.
Hon. Obo, has equally started to distribute a Bursary of Ksh. 8,000 for any secondary day school, Ksh. 16,000 to each student of boarding secondary school and Ksh. 25,000 in every university student at any university provided is Lamu East Pupils and students.
Hon. Ruweida has launched door-to-door campaigns in search of all pupils and students who are in schools and those who have abandoned education to resume school as she has set a serious CDF Board committee tasked with reviewing the application process to ease the learning process.
Lamu County, a constituency with Basuba, Kiunga, Siyu/Pate, Faza/Tchundwa, Kizingitini West, and Ndau Wards, has been marginalized and sidelined from development activities. Lamu East especially is known as the Centre for crime, hostage for Al-Shabaab bandits, and Centre for criminals from Somalia. Lamu town is just 5km away from the Somalia border.
A signed Bursary Cheque by Lamu East Constituency Member of Parliament, Hon. Capt Ruweida Mohammed.
Through education, Mrs. Obo is determined to end marginalization issues terming that education is the through solution to end the root-cause factors of underdevelopment in Lamu East Constituency.
Learning trips for pupils and students.
Lamu East board members have been closely organizing education and tour trips to Nairobi.
The board has frequently brought pupils and students to explore how education has transformed cities such as Nairobi.
By the lead of Hon. Captain Ruweida, they managed to tour Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), Parliament buildings, Lamu Port–South Sudan–Ethiopia–Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor project, also known as the Lamu corridor which is a transport and infrastructure project in Kenya, and finally, the pupils got an exclusive chance to travel from Nairobi to Mombasa through Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to feel and explore new environments.
In Lamu, the majority has not majored in education and through this system conveyed by Captain Ruweida is to eradicate banditry, poverty, and crimes and embrace education for change.
During the Parliament procession, Hon. Captain vehemently encouraged young generations from Lamu to embrace education and put in more hard work to bring change in the region.
“My children learn, the tour to our parliament buildings is a learning process, coming to see Nairobi City is a learning process, see the city’s development is because of education. Education is the key to success and development. When you go back, get knowledge to help you, education is the equalizer” Captain quotes.
A signed Bursary Cheque by Lamu East Constituency Member of Parliament, Hon. Capt Ruweida Mohammed.
Challenges faced by Lamu learners, the recommendation process
It is shocking that in Lamu East Constituency, during exam times the constituency suffers the most as Hon Ruweida affirmed that they have faced challenges of teachers teaching science subjects specifically Patte Girls Secondary School, the first-ever girls boarding secondary school in the often marginalized region which has missed chemistry teacher since its existence in 2019.
“Patte Girls the first Girls Secondary school we’ve missed science teachers in Chemistry and biology, it’s high time to end this marginalization and create a conducive environment for our children to learn and improve the community” She asserted.
Hon Ruweida has however confirmed that when local pupils and students go in search of education from other counties they perform excellently at all times.
“Our students and pupils when they vacate and go to get an education outside Lamu perform absolutely and extremely high, some become most performing during exams.” Hon Captain says.
Students lack model centers such as in Chandani Island.
Lamu East being an island, logistics is very expensive as Ruweida affirms saying that conditions on the island are very high. She shockingly states that Lamu East Constituency has no single tarmac or even an inch of a tarmacked road.
The area has lacked water for a long time. Through Constituency Development Funds (CDF) Captain has affirmed to put more efforts to transform the sectors by all means to ensure equality and inclusivity.
Hon Ruweida has robbed for KERRA to get in touch and start the process of road maintenance and Murraming to pave way for the tarmacking process. She has stated that she will be the first Member of Parliament in Lamu East Constituency to bring into existence of a tarmacked road in the area.
Hon. Ruweida has finally urged parents, clan leaders, and clan elders to help in search of pupils and students to make bursary applications to change the Constituency and produce more students with improved grades for the well-being of the community.
