Whereas I agree entirely that students need a rest after the closure of a school term in order to relax their mind, I strongly disagree that coaching should be banned because it is carried out during holidays. My disagreement is based on the fact that in many schools coaching is carried out daily though disguised as remedial therapy. Secondly, those enforcing the ban sometimes have their own children being coached either from their homes, offices, a friend’s garage or even in a church compound.

Banning holiday coachig therefore does not mean curbing it by any percentage but only to show that control mechanisms are beginning to take shape. There is a trend of disguised coaching in form of remedial teaching and Saturday classes in different schools that is aimed at addressing concerns of slow learners when in the real sense the aim is to tap the first learners, polish them, in order to fetch better grades at the end of the academic year.

From 333 to 400, the 9th August house is to spend Shs 72 bn on salaries alone from Shs 59.9 bn.This means tax payers will bear the burden of an extra annual 12.1 bn in legislators’ salaries.

This development comes in the wake of Government’s decision to downsize the health budget by Sh 105 bn.Putting the extra parliamentary costs into perspective with crucial sectors like health, the extra 12bn can be put to better use like procuring reproductive health supplies and Insulin for diabetic patients both valued at an estimated cost of Shs10.5 bn.If this same amount of money is injected in the education sector, it can build approximately 400 classrooms each valued at Shs30m.