KISUMU, Kenya Sep 4 – National secondary schools have paid millions of shillings to the Kenya Secondary School Heads Association (KESHA), raising questions in Parliament over the organisation’s legal status and the use of public funds.

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Luanda MP Dick Maungu, who chairs the National Assembly’s Public Investments Committee (PIC) on Education and Governance, said some schools had paid KESHA as much as Sh6 million.

Maungu said the committee wants to establish whether KESHA, which serves as a welfare and professional organisation for secondary school principals, is legally entitled to receive funds from public institutions and whether the money it receives is subject to audit by the Auditor-General.

“The other issue that has come out very clearly is that most of these schools contribute money to an organisation known as Kenya Secondary School Heads Association,” Maungu said.

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He cited two schools where the committee found payments of approximately Sh6 million and Sh5 million respectively.

“We want to find out that KESHA is a recipient of public money and maybe the activities they are doing are not audited by the Auditor-General,” he said.

The remarks were made in Kisumu, where the committee is conducting sittings with principals of national secondary schools in Western Kenya as part of its examination of Auditor-General reports.

The inquiry is among the first parliamentary examinations focusing directly on Auditor-General reports concerning secondary schools. The committee has begun with Category One (C1) institutions, mainly national schools, with scrutiny potentially extending to other categories.

Principals from several schools, including Maseno School, Bunyore Girls, Chavakali, Nyang’ori, Maranda and Kisumu Girls, have appeared before the committee.

Maungu said the committee plans to summon KESHA officials to explain the legal framework governing the association and account for funds received from public schools.

📰 Source: Capital FM Kenya