British move to rethink funding welcome

The new British Government’s policy to finance Free Primary Education in Kenya through NGOs or directly to schools is laudable.

This comes after the loss of millions of shillings at the Education ministry, and although the British move comes a tad late, it is better than nothing.

Kenya’s former colonial master, and the country’s most important single bilateral donor since 1963, now appears alive to the fact that billions of shillings in donor funds may have been lost in similar circumstances through the decades.