Failure to invest in education will stunt real growth

If we cannot figure out how to give all Kenyan children a quality education, we should perhaps consider winding up as a going concern. This week Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi announced that the government can no longer afford to fund free primary education.

The announcement came with the usual casual approach of an administration whose officials habitually act as if governing a country of 55 million is the side hustle to their main job of making money off the state.