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Kibra has about 300 informal schools and 11 public primaries, its MP told Parliament.
"In an informal settlement like Kibra, we have about 300 of these kinds of schools, while we only have 11 public primary schools."
That is Kibra MP Peter Orero, speaking in the National Assembly on the afternoon of 8 April. The words are in the official Hansard, not a press report.
The schools he was talking about are APBET institutions – Alternative Provision of Basic Education and Training. They are neither public nor private in law, and in informal settlements they teach most of the children.
Orero was contributing to debate on the Basic Education (Amendment) Bill, 2025, sponsored by Mathare MP Anthony Oluoch. He argued the schools should be registered, mapped, funded and brought into the national education management system.
MPs passed the Bill on 26 August. It writes APBET institutions into the legal definition of basic education institutions, opens the door to public money for their buildings and learning materials, requires county governments to keep databases of them, and sets up a lighter registration route with oversight.
Orero was a school principal before he was an MP – Dagoretti High School from 2017 to 2022, and Upper Hill School before that.
The 300-to-11 ratio is his figure and it is now on the parliamentary record. It can be tested against Ministry of Education and Nairobi County registration data, and KNN intends to test it.
The next question is practical: how many of Kibra's roughly 300 informal schools actually get registered and funded, and by when.
This story was put together by K N N from material first published by National Assembly Hansard.
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“In an informal settlement like Kibra, we have about 300 of these kinds of schools, while we only have 11 public primary schools.”
That is Kibra MP Peter Orero, speaking in the National Assembly on the afternoon of 8 April. The words are in the official Hansard, not a press report.
The schools he was talking about are APBET institutions — Alternative Provision of Basic Education and Training. They are neither public nor private in law, and in informal settlements they teach most of the children.
Orero was contributing to debate on the Basic Education (Amendment) Bill, 2025, sponsored by Mathare MP Anthony Oluoch. He argued the schools should be registered, mapped, funded and brought into the national education management system.
MPs passed the Bill on 26 August. It writes APBET institutions into the legal definition of basic education institutions, opens the door to public money for their buildings and learning materials, requires county governments to keep databases of them, and sets up a lighter registration route with oversight.
Orero was a school principal before he was an MP — Dagoretti High School from 2017 to 2022, and Upper Hill School before that.
The 300-to-11 ratio is his figure and it is now on the parliamentary record. It can be tested against Ministry of Education and Nairobi County registration data, and KNN intends to test it.
The next question is practical: how many of Kibra’s roughly 300 informal schools actually get registered and funded, and by when.
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