Showing posts with label Garissa High School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garissa High School. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Principal Harun Wins
Court defers transfer of teacher honoured by Kibaki
Published on 29/05/2011
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By David Ochami
The High Court in Nairobi has extended orders barring the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) from transferring a secondary school principal to teach at a primary teacher training college by three weeks.
On Friday, Justice Daniel Musinga extended the orders he gave on May 13 to July 21 to enable the lawyer for the principal, Mohamed Harun Yusuf to respond to an affidavit filed by the TSC justifying the transfer from Garissa Secondary School to Mosoriot Teachers Training College in Nandi Country. Ironically, last December Yusuf received a Head of State Commendation for exemplary contribution to excellent academic performance in North Eastern Province and Garissa County.
Through his lawyer Evans Ondieki, the principal has gone to court to overturn what he considers to be a politically motivated transfer engineered by local PC James ole Serian. Yusuf said the transfer followed political pressure from a powerful political elite opposed to his efforts to stop land grabbing at the school.
Staff balancing
The principal argued in an affidavit that TSC as an independent commission should not be arm-twisted.
Ondieki said the premise of the transfer was a letter by ole Serian to the TSC on April 13, this year alleging the principal was at loggerheads with a powerful minister in the province and, therefore, had to be transferred. He told Justice Musinga on May 13 that the coincidence of the transfer by TSC on April 29 this year and the letter by the PC cannot be separated.
This caused the judge to suspend the transfer until May 26 when TSC was to reply to Yusuf’s claims that the movement to Mosoriot was a demotion and not a normal transfer.
But on Friday, TSC through Nancy Macharia, its director in-charge of staffing opposed the petitioner’s claim, arguing that as an independent commission created by article 237 (1) of the Constitution, it could not have succumbed to external pressure to make the transfer.
She alleged in a sworn affidavit that the petitioner was deployed and not demoted to Mosoriot "owing to his exemplary performance and mastery" of Islamic Religious Education and history, adding that the Commission was "motivated solely by its guidelines and the need to ensure correct staff balancing."
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Garissa High Upgraded to a National School
Hey Garissans! Can I have everyone's attention? I've got a big announcement to make here. Call in Caliyow and halima, I don't want them to miss this.
In Garissa, you may have heard, we are big fans of hand-outs and undeserved upgrades. So understandably we are over-joyed by the news that our most famous school is getting upgraded to "national" status. And that's not the end of this great piece of news. The cherry on top of the awesomeness that is this cake : the school gets Sh. 25M to help in upgrading its facilities.
Financially, this has been a windfall year for Garissa High. The school has amassed about Sh. 30 million from the Government and Unicef. Remember, the school was also designated as a sports talent nurturing academy. That designation came with close to Sh. 5 million in backing!
Reality
Lets all remember that Garissa High does not deserve this promotion. Its academically inferior to most schools in other parts of the country and that has nothing to do with marginalization or socio-economic disparities.
Majority of students in the school are either self entitled brats or fatalistic stoners who do not work hard for anything. The Principle is a perpetual absentee administrator with political ambitions and a self-aggrandizing persona. The parents do not give a rat's ass about how the school is run. Clearly thats not a national school culture.
If Garissa high wants to be welcomed into a league that includes Starehe Boys & Alliance High, the schools laissez faire attitude toward failure and mediocrity has to be shed. In its place should come selectivity and rigorous curriculum.
Friday, May 13, 2011
The Garissa High School Debacle
The efforts by Garissa County's asinine political elite to transform our city into some hegemony controlled by afew exclusive families continues apace.
Their campaign to destroy Garissa's egalitarian political normativity
Their campaign to destroy Garissa's egalitarian political normativity
has claimed one more victim in Principal Harun.
Its a political conspiracy of Oedipal nature...a case of kill the baby in its cradle before it kills its papa. Just because the man had the audacity to toy around with the idea of running for the Governor's seat, he is being punished with a transfer to Mosoriot Teachers Training College.
Its a political conspiracy of Oedipal nature...a case of kill the baby in its cradle before it kills its papa. Just because the man had the audacity to toy around with the idea of running for the Governor's seat, he is being punished with a transfer to Mosoriot Teachers Training College.
Don't get me wrong! I don't believe Harun Mohamed is a great educator or principal for that matter. I'm also not of the persuasion that Garissa High School is a great school or even the best in NEP {That honour goes to Mandera Sec which took 35% of all position in the TOP 100 and 15 of the top 25} but his political ambitions shouldn't mean an imminent transfer from a place where he is well liked and appreciated as the demo illustrated.
This's a clear case of political paranoia meshed with unchecked ego and it goes on to show how the powers that be are full of machinations aimed at screwing the public.
That's what our exiguous choice of leaders gets us but it doesn't mean we have to put up with it.
That's what our exiguous choice of leaders gets us but it doesn't mean we have to put up with it.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Mogadishu Girls Basketball Team
UPDATE: Mogadishu Girls made it to the Semi-Finals of the tournament eventually finishing in third place after they beat fellow semi-finalists Nairobi.
If you don't know what I'm about to tell you, you've probably been living under an acacia tree in some Alshabab controlled village for the past week.
Ladies & Gentlemen, Mogadishu is no longer satisfied with dominating the "war scene". That's why the world's most violent city has sent its best girls to conquer East Africa's women's basketball competition.
The hotties were quite impressive in their first outing against reigning champions Nairobi Girls and almost gave us the biggest upset of the tournament. The match was full of alley-oops, hook shots, great dribbles, excellent passes and overall, an outstanding display of basketball. All this achieved with just two weeks of training. You hear that Garissa High School? Speak of making it against the odds!
This's in stark contrast to Garissa High School's effete crew of muscle-atrophied "jocks" who were hapless in all their three matches at the recently concluded KSSSA Kakamega Games.
Embedded Below is a video of the remarkable and inspirational Mogadishu Girls. Just ignore the douchy reporter's claims that Somali women are culturally subjugated. As far as I know, our women are some of the most opinionated and fiercely liberal women in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab league {Think Hawa Tako & Company}. And its not like cabiid women are associated with any kind Feminism, militant or intellectual.
Crossing my fingers for a Cinderella story here.
In unrelated news, Garissa might host the Kenya Secondary Schools Games next year. Read full story here
If you don't know what I'm about to tell you, you've probably been living under an acacia tree in some Alshabab controlled village for the past week.
Ladies & Gentlemen, Mogadishu is no longer satisfied with dominating the "war scene". That's why the world's most violent city has sent its best girls to conquer East Africa's women's basketball competition.
The hotties were quite impressive in their first outing against reigning champions Nairobi Girls and almost gave us the biggest upset of the tournament. The match was full of alley-oops, hook shots, great dribbles, excellent passes and overall, an outstanding display of basketball. All this achieved with just two weeks of training. You hear that Garissa High School? Speak of making it against the odds!
This's in stark contrast to Garissa High School's effete crew of muscle-atrophied "jocks" who were hapless in all their three matches at the recently concluded KSSSA Kakamega Games.
Embedded Below is a video of the remarkable and inspirational Mogadishu Girls. Just ignore the douchy reporter's claims that Somali women are culturally subjugated. As far as I know, our women are some of the most opinionated and fiercely liberal women in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab league {Think Hawa Tako & Company}. And its not like cabiid women are associated with any kind Feminism, militant or intellectual.
Crossing my fingers for a Cinderella story here.
In unrelated news, Garissa might host the Kenya Secondary Schools Games next year. Read full story here
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Garissa High School Clobbered in National Basketball Games
Oh man, how it must feel to be a Garissa High School fan, jock or student right now. It stings like hell. Our hopes for a Cinderella story where a team from the forgotten North East overcomes the long odds to become national basketball champions were quashed late Tuesday thus making the improbable super impossible.
Our boys were clobbered in some of the most lopsided games since Pro's were allowed to participate in the special Olympics. (Ok, that never happened but imagine if it did).
In their first match, GHS played Kamusinga School where they were treated to a score of 135-8 with our boys sinking only four baskets during the entire match. As far as crapiness goes , this was historic and unprecedented .
Their second outing was against Upper Hill where again they were thrashed 112-14 in another one-sided game.
Now lets hope for some consolation in the third and pointless match. Hopefully, the boys will sink at least 8 baskets in this one.
That said, I'm sure we all knew a team that has never had the requisite preparation wouldn't do well in national sports, so this isn't much of a surprise.
Watch out for the girls though. I am sure NEP won't do any worse than GHS.
For those of you who really don't care about this stuff, good choice. More power to you!
Our boys were clobbered in some of the most lopsided games since Pro's were allowed to participate in the special Olympics. (Ok, that never happened but imagine if it did).
In their first match, GHS played Kamusinga School where they were treated to a score of 135-8 with our boys sinking only four baskets during the entire match. As far as crapiness goes , this was historic and unprecedented .
Their second outing was against Upper Hill where again they were thrashed 112-14 in another one-sided game.
Now lets hope for some consolation in the third and pointless match. Hopefully, the boys will sink at least 8 baskets in this one.
That said, I'm sure we all knew a team that has never had the requisite preparation wouldn't do well in national sports, so this isn't much of a surprise.
Watch out for the girls though. I am sure NEP won't do any worse than GHS.
For those of you who really don't care about this stuff, good choice. More power to you!
Friday, April 8, 2011
Garissa High School & NEP Girls in National Basketball Championship
Garissa High School have drawn national champions Maseno High School in pool B of the National Basketball Competition. The games are set to kick off in a week's time in Kakamega town. Laiser Hill and Kangaru round up the group.
NEP Girls Secondary Schools have also been drawn into Pool B of the girl's version to play Laiser Hill, Kingero Girls and Oganda Girls .
The games will take place between April 12- 16th.
We wish both of our teams nothing but the best.
NEP Girls Secondary Schools have also been drawn into Pool B of the girl's version to play Laiser Hill, Kingero Girls and Oganda Girls .
The games will take place between April 12- 16th.
We wish both of our teams nothing but the best.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Strong Winds Cause Property Damage in Garissa
Fast moving winds carrying light showers hit Garissa and its environs today causing property damage of unknown economic value.
The wind was strong enough to knock down trees and blow off roofs. Garissa High school had a few of its buildings damaged as did Boys Town Secondary School.
In some places the winds knocked down power lines and left a few residents with no electricity.
No serious fatalities were reported. We will Keep you posted in case this changes.
You can send us tips at garissacity@yahoo.com
The wind was strong enough to knock down trees and blow off roofs. Garissa High school had a few of its buildings damaged as did Boys Town Secondary School.
In some places the winds knocked down power lines and left a few residents with no electricity.
No serious fatalities were reported. We will Keep you posted in case this changes.
You can send us tips at garissacity@yahoo.com
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Garissa High School chosen to be one of the country's eight sports academies.
A trilateral initiative by the Ministries of Education and Sports, & UNICEF has included Garissa High as one of the countries eight breeding centers for champion Sportsmen. The school has received a donation of Sh. 4m to help fund the academy and nurture Kenya's future champions. Its my sincere hope that this project will be executed with the interest of country and students at heart. Failure to do so will not only mean another generation of talent going to waste, it will also deprive our province of representation in National sporting championships.
Finally, GHS should increase its quota of students who come from Wajir and Mandera counties. For a long time the school has had 90% + of its student body hailing from within the city. This funding will give it an edge over its rivals and allow the school to broaden its talent pool both academically and sports-wise.
Read the full story here.
Finally, GHS should increase its quota of students who come from Wajir and Mandera counties. For a long time the school has had 90% + of its student body hailing from within the city. This funding will give it an edge over its rivals and allow the school to broaden its talent pool both academically and sports-wise.
Read the full story here.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Garissa Youth Project Set for Take-off
Since the late 90s a lot of aid has been poured into Garissa and its surrounding localities. Most of it has gone down the drain without much impact. If a fifth of this aid was deployed effectively, things would have been much different today. Instead you have a cacophony of aid effort from multiple organizations that are uncoordinated and run by non-natives who are not ready to do the nitty-gritty stuff .
Garissa Youth Project is a local organization funded by an international NGO (Education Youth Center) that has been started by local youth to mobilize their community and change the fortunes of locals in Garissa. Recently G-youth and other local NGOs have received US $ 5M (Ksh 400 Million) from the American Ambassador, Michael Ranneberger to enhance youth development and capacity building.
It comes as no surprise then that G-Youth stakeholders have started a high school student empowerment project in Garissa. They intend to hold career fairs for students, sensitize parents, link schools to career resource centers among many other things.
The schools that have been picked to participate in this pilot project are:
Garissa HighSchool
County HighSchool
Nep Girls Secondary School
UmuSalama Secondary School
Boystown Secondary School
Iftin Girls Secondary School
Tetu Secondary School
Khadija Girls Secondary School
Ikhlas Mixed Day Seconday school
Young Muslim Academy
G-Youth needs to lauded for this. Our students have always lacked effective career counselling.
I hope part of the fund will be used to invest in ICT projects to make High Speed Internet connectivity available to schools so that our students can be in touch with the world.
Rwanda has been able to do this with great success and we ought to learn from them. Students in Primary schools in Rwandan villages have laptops thanks to the combined efforts of their government and the one laptop per child policy. However I'm not under the false impression that Kenya can in anyway be compared to Rwanda, a country whose government may not be of the people or by the people but is surely for the people.
Garissa Youth Project is a local organization funded by an international NGO (Education Youth Center) that has been started by local youth to mobilize their community and change the fortunes of locals in Garissa. Recently G-youth and other local NGOs have received US $ 5M (Ksh 400 Million) from the American Ambassador, Michael Ranneberger to enhance youth development and capacity building.
It comes as no surprise then that G-Youth stakeholders have started a high school student empowerment project in Garissa. They intend to hold career fairs for students, sensitize parents, link schools to career resource centers among many other things.
Garissa HighSchool
County HighSchool
Nep Girls Secondary School
UmuSalama Secondary School
Boystown Secondary School
Iftin Girls Secondary School
Tetu Secondary School
Khadija Girls Secondary School
Ikhlas Mixed Day Seconday school
Young Muslim Academy
G-Youth needs to lauded for this. Our students have always lacked effective career counselling.
I hope part of the fund will be used to invest in ICT projects to make High Speed Internet connectivity available to schools so that our students can be in touch with the world.
Rwanda has been able to do this with great success and we ought to learn from them. Students in Primary schools in Rwandan villages have laptops thanks to the combined efforts of their government and the one laptop per child policy. However I'm not under the false impression that Kenya can in anyway be compared to Rwanda, a country whose government may not be of the people or by the people but is surely for the people.
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