Senior Chief Musyoka Muthisya Foundation

To The Community; I, Justus  Mutai Musyoka (KYETHO) wishes all Catholics a blessed Lanten period ahead. This is a time for prayer, fasting and almsgiving.  Let us join hands together this season to Empower more people and transform their lives. From, TRUSTEE

By PATRICK KIMANZI When Rongai District was carved out of Nakuru in 2009, the Ministry of Education posted me there to be the first District Education Officer. Upon reporting for duty, I found that the residents had settled for Kambi ya Moto, a small sleepy shopping center as the District Headquarters. There were no government offices to host me. I was forced to rent an office space at the shopping centre. Time was not on my side. The residents were excited with the new district status and the social- economic goodies it promised. Service Delivery MOURNING : Mr. Justus Mutai Musyoka-The first District Education Officer for Rongai District is a Director in the Ministry of Education © MPPRESS/PATRICK KIMANZI As more government officials were deployed to take charge of the district affairs, residents were eager to meet them and be assured of service delivery. But for my case, I had an immediate challenge to tackle. I didn’t have a hall where I could meet teachers...

By PATRICK KIMANZI The call that took shivers down my spine. It was a day and time around the year 2010. As I settled at my office for the day’s work, a call came in through my cellphone number. It was a landline number which I immediately recognised as from the Ministry of Education Headquarters. “Send out a team of officers to Moi Primary school Kabarak immediately. Establish if it’s a private school and confirm whether there are teachers employed by the government there. Email an advance copy by 2:00 pm and send the original by courier to reach the headquarters by 8:00 am in the morning. The Minister will be waiting; beamed my caller as he urged me to take it up urgently and importantly”. BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: I found myself caught in the middle of a supremacy battle between TSC and The Ministry.©PHOTO/PATRICK KIMANZI I was like seriously? Wasn’t it an open secret that Kabarak was a private school and that TSC had deployed teachers to the school ...