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Millions of books in Kenya gather dust as supply beats demand

Some of the oversupplied textbooks lying in the secondary school stores. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]

Recent revelations by a parliamentary committee that taxpayers could have been funding fictitious schools appear to be just the tip of the iceberg in the rot that seems to be manifesting itself in the education sector.

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