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Failure to invest in education will stunt real growth

Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning John Mbadi before The Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations to deliberate on the commercial bank accounts operated by county governments contrary to the law at Bunge Towers, Parliament, Nairobi. July 17th,2025. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

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.

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