President William Ruto has issued directive to the ministry of energy to install cooking gas in all schools across the country.
Ruto said the government cannot achieve plans to plant trees if homestead and schools continue cutting down trees to prepare meals.
The President expressed confidence that Energy Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi and his team will ensure all schools have cooking gas.
He invited the private sector to work with the government in delivering clean energy to all schools.
“This is a project that we are not going to government money, it is going to be financed by the private sector.
As we buy cars from them, they will be required to install all the LPG tanks in our schools,” he said.
Ruto Asks Wandayi to Fasten Implementation
He asked the ministry to facilitate a process where the private sector can play their part in ensuring the government rolls out the program in the shortest time possible.
“Minister and your team, the children of Kenya in our boarding schools, TVETs and other institutions now know that in the one year they will have gas delivered to their schools and we will save on the destruction of our environment, reduce cutting down of trees and improve on the health of those who are busy in our kitchens since they will inhaling carbon dioxide and suffering from diseases,” he said.
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He explained that the program will allow school cooks to deliver on their responsibility to provide schools for students without struggling with charcoal and firewood.
Additionally, Ruto said the program gives a win-win outcome since the country will save on cutting trees have clean energy and save on matters of health.
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He mentioned that the country will benefit from an accountable mechanism that will allow the government to unlock resources coming from carbon trading.
According to Ruto, the government will be able to monitor that it has moved all schools from other forms of energy to clean gas.
“Now we can monitor that we have monitor that we have transitioned all the schools from using biomas, charcoal and firewood into using cleaner forms of energy and that is gas,” he said.
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Transition to Open Tender System
Besides, Ruto said the government will transition the purchase of gas in Kenya to an open tender mechanism.
Ruto said the government will move to an open tender system in buying gas in the near future.
“Going into the future we will transition the purchase of gas in Kenya to an open tender mechanism,” he said.
Ruto said the transition will allow for competition in the purchase of gas and will be done through an OTS.
The President said the plan of this strategy is to enhance the consumption of gas from 6.5kgs to 15kgs per person yearly.
Additionally, he said the plan also aims to enhance the penetration of the use of gas from the current 24 percent to 70 percent by the end of the execution of the strategy.
“We will now have an OTS that is going to support the purchase of competitively so that we can have competitive prices and leverage on the scale that we have as a country,” he said.
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