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Azimio MPs ask government to release Sh52.8 billion owed to public schools

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National Assembly Minority Leader Opiyo Wandayi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Azimio La Umoja MPs have asked the government to immediately release Sh52.8 billion owed to Free Day School Education funds, dating back to the year 2021.

The legislators who addressed journalists in the Parliament building said that the failure to remit these funds is testament enough to the lack of commitment by the government to the future of this country's school-going children.

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