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Multi-million shilling facilities idle as youth snub craft courses

John Warui attends to engineering equipment at a Laikipia East Technical and Vocational College lab. The multi-million shilling equipment is lying idle for lack of students. [Jacinta Mutura, Standard]

A walk on the hallways of Laikipia East Technical and Vocational College evokes feelings of isolation.

This ambitious institution that should be brimming with life has instead become a pale shadow of what it was meant to be.

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