Kisumu County Governor Anyang’ Nyong’o has vowed that he must demolish Kisumu Boys High School which is located at the Kisumu city centre.
According to Nyong’o, a city is commercial-oriented and should be run as a profit-making entity. As such he argues that Kisumu Boys serves no economic purpose.
“Considering the value of the place, that land needs to be useful. We need to construct an integrated urban centre rather than schools,” Prof Nyong’o said.
The secondary school will be relocated to a 105 acres of land parcel in Kibos area.
Kisumu Boys dates back to the early 20th Century during the construction of the Kenya-Uganda Railway.
Kisumu Girls High School, Manyatta Arabs School, the Kisumu County Referral Hospital, the main bus terminus and the Jua Kali market will also be affected.
“Each school has a field, a swimming pool and other amenities that have occupied [large parcels of] land. Why don’t we take them to an area where schools share amenities? We don’t need to have a field for each school in a town.
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“Five schools can have one field because they don’t use it all the time. Students from school A can use it the morning and in the afternoon school B brings its students,” Nyong’o said.
