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Uasin Gishu county leaders broke their voters' trust in botched airlift

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Uasin Gishu senator Jackson Mandago (Centre) escorted to Nakuru Central Police station on August 16,2023. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

The scandal around the Uasin Gishu Education Trust Fund, an airlift education programme to Finland and Canada organised by the county government, raises many unanswered questions.

For example, why did the parents and students believe this was a scholarship programme yet they were paying millions of shillings? How was the programme to work and were there guarantees for admission and scholarships?

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