Education CS, Amina Mohamed, on Wednesday, declared the inclusion of police and other crime busters to track down HELB loan defaulters.
Announcing the board’s 2019-2023 Strategic Plan at Laico Regency Hotel in Nairobi, Amina stated that the Ministry sought to recover over Ksh6.8 Billion owed by 74,008 defaulters.
CS Amina added that the crackdown would commence at any time, urging employers to cooperate with Ministry officials to track down the defaulters.
The Education CS explained that payment would help HELB to increase the number of students funded thereby progressively implementing universal funding for all Kenyans enrolled in higher learning institutions with an adequate amount to cater for their financial needs.
She further divulged that as at December 31, 2018, a total of 213,067 loanees had cleared their loans worth Ksh21.3 Billion while a total of 153,817 accounts valued at Ksh24 Billion were repaying their loans.
“The new Strategic plan dubbed HELB Agenda 2019-2023 is costed at an estimated Ksh90.7B over the 5-year period and envisages a reformed, bolder, agile, customer-focused, FINTECH enabled and Risk Intelligent organization which accords HELB Employees a great place to work,” she conveyed.
HELB Chairman Ekwee Ethuro maintained that the board was in a better position to centralize distribution of all funding to students in institutions of higher learning.
The body anchored its new strategy to four key Global, Continental and National development agendas namely; The Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), The Africa Union (AU) Agenda 2063, Vision 2030 and The Big 4 Agenda.
