The government has postponed the reopening of schools from Thursday to Monday next week.
Schools will reopen on Monday, August 15, 2022, according to Educations CS George Magoha.
“Following further consultations, I hereby convey the Government’s decision that Basic Education Institutions will reopen from Monday,” he said.
“I ordered the early closure of all Basic Education Institutions to allow for adequate preparation and conduct of the General Elections. We indicated that reopening would be on the 11th of August 2022. However, the ministry has been informed that the process of tallying ballots may still be ongoing on the aforementioned date,” he said.
Last week, Prof Magoha instructed all basic education institutions to close for one week to allow for the general elections that was held yesterday.
More than 23,000 schools had been designated as polling and tallying locations.
By Wednesday, most of the classrooms that had been converted into constituency tallying centers were still in use.
