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Primary schools with dilapidated classrooms cry out for facelift

Class four pupils of Ang'ongo primary school in muhoroni Kisumu county study in dilapidated mud wall classroom.

Kisumu: As Ministry of Education officials continue to raid schools to establish whether money allocated to them by the Government was spent diligently, the state of some of these institutions can only be described as pathetic.

One of these schools is Akingili Primary in Kisumu West sub-county.  The school’s infrastructure, according to the head teacher Kepha Olum, is the most dilapidated in the region. Mr Olum complained that the allocation from the Government is measly and only enough to do maintenance work on the mud-walled classrooms.

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