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West Pokot, where there are tablets but no classrooms

Pupils of Lopelekwa Primary School, in Pokot South, West Pokot County during a lesson under the scorching sun. [Irissheel Shanzu, Standard]

Lopalekwa Primary school in West Pokot county presents everything that is warped of Jubilee government's digital literacy programme.

Five years after the launch of multi-billion Jubilee Laptop project, the school is yet to make much of it as the gadgets found them grappling with bigger problems.

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