Corruption or law?

If government and its arms are corrupt where will the poor man run to to be heard or protected. We had a strange situation today. Our lorry was arrested for not having Insurance sticker of the windscreen. We had forgotten to stick it since the lorry was used last time in December, 2011. Our lorry had been hired by the FMA to carry firewood from Embu town and was being driven by their driver. We tried to talk with the policemen explaining our case but they did not listen to us. They took the driver and took him immediately to the court being charged of not displaying ticker on the windscreen. We were fined Kshs 4,000.

New Architectural Drawing

Today we received new Architectural drawing from Casimir. It is for new classrooms. The suggestion is that the classrooms, storey building, should be built in two phases. We were surprised that Fr. TJ and Sanjey do not want to hear anything about dormitory. If this will be the trend we are going to kill this very vital institution in Kenya. It is the only Secondary school run by the Salesians in this country.  We wonder what they want with Embu!  The very unfortunate thing is that there are two Salesians, Members of the Provincial Council, who have been in this institution and they know how much we need new rooms yet they may not be giving proper information to the Council about our situation or maybe the other Council Members are so much against this House/School!

Salesian Family Day in Makuyu - 21/01/2012

It was a colourful occassion sponsored by VIDES Kenya. Salesian Family celebrated their day in Makuyu. There was Mass presided over by Fr. Simon Asira. Present were SDBs, FMAs, Salesian Cooperators, Past Pupils and VIDES. Our community was presented by Fr. Maina.

Strenna for 2012 was explained and many shared their views on how to go forward united as a family.

Fr. Richard and Mr. Ndirangu went to Thika and Nairobi looking for uniform for our students. The supplier who was expected to supply us with uniforms declined at the last minute.

Form One reported, Mr. Mugendi runs away

Today market the first day for Form Ones year 2012 in school. About 60 students reported today accompanied by their parents and relations. It was very interesting seeing parents, especially mothers, making beds for their sons.

Mr. Mugendi, MVM, carried his things and escaped from our school compound. He was requested to produce items that were missing in the MVM workshop but it seems he prefered to run away from his responsibility. The disapperance of the tools and equipment was reported to the police station and some of our workers, Mr Lawrence Maina and Ochieng, will record statement at the police station tomorrow in view of getting Mr. Mugendi and legally facing justice.

Finishing works

We have been trying to get classroom, dormitory and Sanitation ready for the new Form 1 students. Our contructor has let us down so much to apoint that he is not able to finish work he was supposed to finish in December. We employed our Technical students to do a bit of this work in the evening up to 8:00 pm. We hope to put final touched tomorrow.

Mr. Peter Mugendi came today and I took him over the list of items missing in the Motor Vehicle Mechanics. He seems just careless about the whole issue and kept on saying that things were there. To our observation he has stolen most of these things. We contacted the OCS at Itabua Police Station and we are contemplation writing a statement at the Police station so that Mr. Peter Mugendi could be followed to explain where things went. This evening he got a letter asking him to produce or explain where loost items are by Monday, 23rd January 2012.

Loss in MVM Department, New Tech Students

Today was a sad day indeed after learning how extensive is the damage done by our Mechanic Peter Mugendi. He has stolen so many items from our workshop and created such an extensive damage to our MVM department. Below are the items that have disappeared or rather the items he has stolen.

1.       Hydraulic pump for a trolley Jack.

2.       Electric Motor for hydraulic tyres press for Tractor.

3.       Tube Working Tool Kit.

4.       Hydraulic Body Jack.

5.       Black took kit Hazet missing some pieces.

6.       Two pieces of New Set of Combination Spanners.

7.       Two Rims and three Tyres for Daihatsu Rocky.

8.       Rear leaf spring spring Assembly for Daihatsu Rocky

9.       Front leaf spring assembly for Daihatsu Rocky

10.   Front left hub Lock for Daihatsu Rocky

11.   Starter Motor for Daihatsu Rocky

12.   Five Tyres and five Rims for Toyota Hilux.

13.   Starter Motor and Alternator for Toyota Hilux.

14.   One Scraper.

15.   One Sniper.

16.   One clamp.

17.   Five Box Spanners.

We hope he will be able to produce these things and let us know where he has taken them.

Today our New students in Technical Institute reported for the first time. We welcome them walmly

Preparation for welcoming Form Ones

Hectic time trying to beat deadline for having all things in place for the coming of the Form One students on Friday. We still have to get new beds vanished with the last coat, move music instruments to a new rooom and computer rooms moved to new sights.