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Booksellers cry foul over policy on direct supply of books to schools

Chairman Kenya Booksellers Association, Nakuru Chapter, Albert Kimani, speaks in Nakuru on Friday. [Harun Wathari, Standard]

The Kenya Publishers Association has been accused of hatching a plan to wreck the bookselling industry to benefit its members.

The Kenya Booksellers Association said the decision by the Government to sell books to schools had left its members stuck with dead stock worth over Sh2b.

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