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Business Daily (Nairobi)
May 14, 2008
News Article By Jim Onyango
The Ministry of Education has said it needs Sh1.4 billion to reconstruct schools that were destroyed during the post election violence.
Most of the schools destroyed are in the Rift Valley and parts of Nyanza province. However, it is difficult to know how the Ministry of Education arrived at the figure, given that it is yet to release an audit of the schools which were destroyed during the post election violence.
Some schools in Rift Valley province and parts of Kisii district are yet to re-open for the second term as displaced people had pitched tents in their compounds.
Cement maker Bamburi, yesterday came to the rescue of the destroyed schools and pledged cement worth Sh8 million to help in the reconstruction.
Eric Olsen, the CEO of Lafarge Group, the parent company of Bamburi Cement, said Kenya was an important emerging market for Lafarge, and that the firm would provide all necessary assistance to communities affected by the post election violence.
Early this week, President Kibaki helped to raise Sh457 million to assist in resettlement of displaced families.
The violence which followed the disputed presidential election last year, left more than 1,000 people dead and 350,000 displaced.
The amount raised is still far short of the Sh30 billion budgeted for the programme. President Kibaki has urged Kenyans and the international community to help the government bridge the deficit.
The money will be used for construction of new houses as well as rehabilitation of community utilities and institutions destroyed during the unrest.
Already, the Government has donated Sh1 billion to the fund also known as the Humanitarian Fund for Mitigation of Effects and Resettlement of Victims of Post-2007 Election Violence.
Schools which were destroyed in the skirmishes were not budgeted for in the funds which were raised at a public function at the Kenyatta International Conference centre.
The government says a number of internally displaced people have since relocated to their farms after a three months stay in the camps.
