Petitioner pleads with MPs to scrap textbook tax

Primary school head teachers select textbooks during the 14th annual Kenya Primary Schools Head Teachers Association conference in Mombasa last week. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

A man has for the second time petitioned legislators to remove the tax on textbooks to make them more affordable.

Njoroge Waweru, whose bid to have the 16 per cent value-added tax imposed on textbooks scrapped floundered in 2016, has returned to the National Assembly with the same petition.