Ndindi Nyoro Launches Kiharu Masomo Bora 2026, Caps Day School Fees at Ksh 500 Per Term
Kiharu MP Hon. Ndindi Nyoro on Tuesday launched the Kiharu Masomo Bora Programme – 2026 Edition at Maragi Primary School Grounds, unveiling one of the most comprehensive education support initiatives targeting day secondary schools in the country.
Speaking during the launch, Nyoro reaffirmed his commitment to education, as he outlined wide-ranging interventions aimed at improving access, quality, and outcomes for learners in Kiharu Constituency.
The programme will benefit over 12,000 learners across all 65 day secondary schools in Kiharu, covering Grade 10, Form 3, and Form 4 students.
Fees Slashed, Meals Guaranteed
In a major relief to parents, the MP announced that school fees for all day secondary school learners will be capped at Ksh 500 per term starting Term One of 2026.
To enhance retention and performance, all learners will now be served lunch every school day, including Saturdays. The meal plan includes githeri three days a week, rice for three days, and uji during tea breaks, with chapati served every last Friday of the month.
Millions Set Aside for Learning Materials and Infrastructure
Nyoro disclosed that Ksh 10 million has been allocated this financial year for revision materials through the Kiharu NG-CDF, adding to Ksh 20 million already provided in previous years.
An additional Ksh 50 million will go towards school infrastructure development, with a strong focus on laboratory construction and improvement, as part of efforts to strengthen science education.
Uniforms, Co-Curricular Support, and Incentives
All students joining Grade 10 in 20 identified schools with low enrolment, as well as newly established schools, will receive free school uniforms.
Each of the 65 day secondary schools will also receive Ksh 50,000 to supplement co-curricular activities such as music festivals, sports, and games, acknowledging that government capitation remains insufficient.
To motivate excellence, Ksh 900,000 has been set aside for prize-giving ceremonies, shared equally between Murang’a East and Kahuro sub-counties, ensuring parents do not shoulder the cost.
Rewards for Teachers and Principals
In a rare incentive move, the best-improved teacher per subject in each sub-county will receive a fully paid trip to Mombasa, funded personally by the MP.
Additionally, 12 principals from the best and most improved schools across the six wards will enjoy a fully sponsored trip to Dubai, with an alternative option of Malaysia for those who have previously travelled to Dubai.
No Hidden Charges, Full Coverage
Nyoro emphasized that no extra fees, levies, or registration charges will be allowed in any of the schools. Remedial programmes have been capped at Ksh 1,000 per term, while insurance premiums and servicing of school buses owned by day schools will be fully covered under the programme.
The initiative applies to all learners, including students from other parts of the country, as long as they are enrolled in Kiharu’s day secondary schools.
Strong Warning to Government Over Capitation
During the launch, the Kiharu MP issued a stern warning to the national government, urging it to stop increasing school fees and immediately restore capitation.
“Nataka kuambia serikali hivi: hii mchezo ya kuchezea masomo ya wanafunzi wa Kenya iliyoletwa na Mwai Kibaki sitakubali. Muache kuongezea school fees, mrudishe capitation. Kama sivyo, wazazi wote wa Kenya wataingia darasani kusoma hadi mrudishe hiyo capitation,” Nyoro said to loud applause.
The Masomo Bora programme, now entering its 2026 edition, continues to position Kiharu as a model constituency in education investment, even as debates over school funding intensify nationally.
One of the most creative and very successful plan Ndindi Nyoro has adopted in Kiharu for effective and productive us of CDF money is to have local people build the schools by providing materials and labour for construction and it is working great.
Ndindi Nyoro is spending CDF money training Kiharu young people to do construction work and paying training costs. Those young are now building the schools in Kiharu.
They consulted architects and other experts and resolved to stop implementing construction projects through the normal tendering process.
Instead, they decided to use the labour-based model that would reduce the costs by up to 40 per cent.
But first, the NG-CDF needed to train residents the technical skills required to take up the jobs that would be provided by the new system of projects implementation.
“We took a batch of youths for training in tiles installation and professional painting to ensure their workmanship was of high quality,” the MP said.
Construction materials are also sourced from local outlets, ensuring that local families benefit every time there is an on-going project in an area.
Within his first term, Nyoro was able to renovate and tile all 112 public primary schools and by 2022, he was already considering laying cabros in their compounds.
The objective, he said, was to transform public schools into academies and provide a conducive learning environment for learners.
Already, 30 primary schools have had their compounds installed with paving blocks and landscaped, sparking excitement among learners.
The upgrade, Nyoro said, will provide a firm foundation for pupils and boost their confidence, ensuring they have a polished demeanour by the time they join secondary school.
“We started with 10 schools and have taken up 20 more during the August holidays. In December, more schools will benefit.”
Early last year, Nyoro also launched the Masomo Bora programme that subsidised fees for learners in day secondary schools who now pay only Sh1,000 per term.
Covering about 15,000 learners in 62 schools, the programme’s objective is to ensure students continue with their studies without disruptions.
Students enjoy a free feeding programme where githeri is on the menu for three days and then rice for the other three days, including Saturdays.
Every last Friday of the month, the students enjoy a meal of chapatti.
Nyoro said the NG-CDF contributes Sh40 million annually to the programme while parents and partners contribute the rest.
“We have a partner who donates sugar and porridge flour worth about Sh15 million annually. Another partner donates wheat flour for chapatis.”
Under the program, Sh20 million is set aside to buy revision books to ensure the impact is both qualitative and quantitative.
And the man is on the ground in his constituency, and it is clear he puts education on top of the agenda for Kiharu by putting the necessary resources to help young Kenyans succeed in their lives.
Let Kenyans compare the great job Ndindi Nyoro is doing in Kiharu with what Imran Okoth did with CDF money a few years ago when he was the Kibra MP.
Even in the middle of the huge waste of CDF in Kenya, you go to Kibra constituency in Nairobi and you find the best use of CDF. It is like you are looking at different country compared to many schools in Kenya even in Nairobi.
Here is Mbagathi High School built with CDF money by Imran and his late brother Ken Okoth, the Kibra M.P before he took over and you are puzzled to realize that he gets the same amount of money as the other M.Ps and actually has a bigger population to serve in Kibra which is very densely populated.
Imran goes to sit with students in their classrooms and enjoys their company. Every day he is up to to something offering scholarships and helping students who have graduated from high schools to get additional training and further education.
Those are some of the schools he has built in Kibra and there are many others under construction .
And inside the schools that Imran, Kibra M.P build in his constituency he has put the investments to make those places conducive to learning.
This M.P is building schools with the interests of the kids at the centre of his plans. Others paint walls to help the cover up their theft of CDF.
Here is what it is in Kibra schools.
In 2003 a bill for Community Development Fund (CDF) was introduced in parliament and passed.
So they pass the CDF Act and that means that every constituency in Kenya gets a certain amount of money (2.5% of the National Budget).
That money goes directly under the control of the MP for every constituency.
Some MPs have done wonderful work for their communities and constituencies while others have done absolutely nothing or even made things worse.
There is no unified code of standards and expectations on how our MPs can use CDF to bring opportunities for education and development for their constituents.
We Kenyans look at what these two MPs have done with the same amount of NG-CDF money that all of them get every year, the first question to ask is what has your own MP has done with that money.
Sadly 90% or more of MPs across all parties use CDF money as pocket money. They are eating billions in taxpayer money which was meant to bring development to every constituency and all they do is heckle in their Twitter accounts about their political heroes and enemies.
Our MPs today are Twitter MPs because that is where they live and that is where you can find them. They have no constituency and not people to represent and no time to make life better for their constituents. Most of Kenyan MPs live in Nairobi and never go back to their constituencies except to pick up that CDF check which can also just be deposited directly into their accounts, so they don’t have to waste time travelling back home.
Now here is the grand plan to deal with the theft of CDF money once and for all. Forget the audits and the Supreme Court rulings declaring CDF as established illegal let Kenyans do their own audit of the projects the MPs have invested their CDF during their time in office.
Me I am going to start with my own MP, Gedeon Ochanda Ogolla, Bondo MP who is doing his second term. We are going to form “CDF PUBLIC AUDIT TEAM” where we will have a group from diverse sectors and parts of the constituency work together and develop a plan to visit every single project our MP has done during his term in office.
I am sure our M.P will be thrilled to take us around for a show and record of everything he has done with the CDF money for those who have elected him twice which has given him 8 years as our MP now. Let’s go and see everything achieved in those years for his constituents.
The reason why we think it is time for Kenyans to do a public audit in their constituencies to find out how CDF is used to build schools is because some schools in Kenya are just really bad.
The problem and reason Kenyans need to have a public audit on what has been done with all CDF money in every constituency is that what we see up there are not schools in Kenya in 1970s.
No, those are some of the schools in many parts of Kenya today where parents send their young ones to learn. It is obvious there is no chance of any success in their learning in the circumstances they face and in fact their safety is even a bigger issue.
In the CDF PUBLIC AUDIT TEAMS that we are proposing there will be no political bias because it will be very direct and public so everyone in the constituencies undergoing public audit will choose the people to carry out the audit.
The team will visit every project built or under construction in their constituency and take pictures, talk to people there and make everything they are doing public.
After they finish their job in the whole constituency the public audit team will publicly present all the projects that their MP has achieved while in office with pictures and everything.
I am sure many MPs will be thrilled with such reports and will proudly stand up to tell their constituents what other big projects they have as Kenyans approach the 2027 elections. This will work for everybody. Wonderful, isn’t it?
Here is a simple step that every Kenyan can do to find out if their MP is doing any development projects in the constituency. Type in the name of your M.P in the computer. If you are in Nyali type in Mohamed Ali MP and you enter that and you will see options of “Stories” “Video” and “Images”.
Clique on images and you will see pictures and click on any of those and you get all sorts of places where your MP has been where they took pictures. As you would expect, your MP, if they built any school or health centre will have big pictures of themselves opening what they built.
If you just see pictures of your MP in meetings in parliament and other places and no pictures opening anything they have built in our constituency that MP has done absolutely zero for your constituency.
So that is step one which we can all do and I have done a lot in the last couple of days, and I will keep quiet about that for now. But the big one is the PUBLIC CDF AUDIT TEAMS which is needed for every constituency so Kenyans can know what they are getting and what to expect from their MPs.
Adongo Ogony is a Human Rights Activist and a Writer who lives in Toronto, Canada
