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How officer got Sh11m to fund bogus school

Public Accounts Committee Chairman Opiyo Wandayi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

A junior officer in the Education Ministry created a fictitious secondary school and went ahead to benefit from over Sh11 million in government disbursement, a new report by MPs has revealed.

The report also revealed that another officer inflated enrolment figures in the system for some schools in what partly occasioned an overpayment of Sh103 million to 150 schools across the country.

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