How school heads won back Sh7.6b textbook money

A parent selects second-hand textbooks from a street vendor in Nakuru town. (File, Standard)

A vigorous campaign by headteachers highlighting the gaps in the current directive to schools on delivery of textbooks saw the government yield to pressure to return the billions back to the hands of school managers.

Finer details reveal that school heads leveraged on the shortfalls of the new government policy to push for the collapse of the 2017 directive by former Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi.