Cash-strapped schools send learners home as capitation delays bite

Students in Nakuru reporting back to their schools for the third term studies. [File, Standard]

Schools are sliding into a crisis as delayed government capitation leaves administrators with little choice but to send learners home over unpaid fees.

Principals describe a desperate struggle to keep schools afloat without the government funding as they continue to incur expenses on food, laboratory practicals, wages and other daily operations.