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Revealed: How secondary schools loot public funds

Parents demonstrate against increased form ones school fees structures at Jogoo house. ON 03/01/15 PHOTO; JENIPHER WACHIE

Some secondary schools are inflating admission figures so that they receive more funds from the Government under the subsidised education programme.

A survey by the Auditor General Edward Ouko on financial statements from the Ministry of Education revealed that the Government could be losing millions of shillings of capitation funds in public schools through inflated enrollment figures.

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