Selena Gomez pins message to Uhuru Kenyatta

“Education changes lives. I recently traveled to Kenya with @wemovement and witnessed firsthand the importance of quality education.

I’m supporting @GlblCtzn to call on Kenya to keep its promise to every Kenyan child.” Read the tweet that Selena Gomez had recently posted.

The American singer has been to Kenya on several occasions and mostly always like her trip being kept as secretive as possible.

Selena came to Kenya last year December last but this is not exactly where the tweet she had posted came from.

Back in 2018, at Johannesburg South Africa, there was a concert that had been hosted and Uhuru made a point of sending a video there.

Selena was present and having also visited Kenya recently must have taken the matter to heart.

In the Concert, Uhuru had gone ahead and said that according to 2019’s budget, funds allocated to education would go up from 17% up to 30%.

He had said that most of the mps wanted education to be allocated about 20% but he was willing to take it a step farther.

He had said, ” global citizens have called upon my administration to maintain its education budget above 20% of our total budget but I want to go one step further.

This year I pledge to you that in Kenya, our education budget will be closer to 30% of our total budget, making it probably the highest on the African continent ,” Uhuru announced.”

The situation on unfulfilled promises is bad such that the international community is noticing even having famous personalities push the government to act.

Girls have borne the brunt of being left behind when it comes to education leading to stagnation in the advancement of women’s rights.

In a video posted online, Gomez says, “Countless students in Kenya are not receiving quality education including the 59% who are not going to school.

As a result, young people across the country and particularly the poorest and the most marginalised are missing out on critical opportunities.”

Currently, as per the budget released last year, education had been given Kshs 473.5 million out of the Kshs 3.03 trillion.

This means that the total percentage that education was given was approximately 15.3% almost half of what President Uhuru had pledged.

As Kenya’s uneducated millions continue in a world blacked out of knowledge, the country will take longer to achieve its development goals unless all Kenyans can have unfettered access to quality education from formative years to when they join the job market.

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