The agency is looking at how the government-allocated free primary education (FPE) funds were used. Donors have also pumped billions of shillings into buying of books for public schools. This is after it distributed books to schools in January at a cost of Sh7.5 billion, down from Sh21.4 billion. It is now supplying books directly to 28,000 public public primary schools and 9,000 secondary institutions. It was estimated that the pupil-to-book ratio stood at 5:1 in primary schools against the government target of 1:1.

Source: Daily Nation December 20, 2018 05:26 UTC