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Ghost schools scandal: 87,000 phantom learners on the books

Education CS Julius Migos addresses the Press after visiting teachers admitted to Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, on February 1, 2026. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

It has now emerged that at least 87,000 ghost learners were embedded in official education records even as dozens of public schools with no learners continued to appear as operational, exposing deep systemic failures in enrolment data management and raising fresh concerns over the integrity of government capitation.

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