Free education cash scandal: President demands answers

http://www.ntv.co.ke The discovery of a multi-million scam involving theft and misappropriation funds meant for free primary education as well as secondary school tuition fees. tonight, sources indicate that president Mwai Kibaki is outraged by the scam which has struck the heart of the most successful programme in his seven year presidency. the furious president is said to be awaiting a full report on the scandal which was revealed on Friday by the British department for international development dfid, which is a key donor to the free education programme. The education ministry remains silent three days after the revelations which observers say, are causing the government a great deal of embarrassment.

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• EDUCATION
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[1joneema]

Hypocrites! This is not the only the corruption case involving your govt. You are pretending to care just to fool kenyans. Very soon this will be forgotten and these greedy foxes will continue to enjoy the ill gotten wealth. They are the ruling class so they wont be touched. Extremely poor legacy for Kibaki administration

[soilabrown]

Free primary education should encompass all aspects of it. Free tuition, free uniform, free basic meals , free uniforms and a free clinic in all schools. However that is not the case in Kenya, kids from poor families go to school on empty stomachs, with runny noses and with tatters in the name of uniforms and worn out shoes or no shoes at all. Now we all know why.

[karuitha]

How about the parliamentary select committee, why has it not called in Wako in relation to the travel ban and the education minister in relation to the fund scandal for a grilling? The select committee seem to always concentrate on petty issues like the passats, I asked myself, why didnt they ever question the mercedes benze tender all those years ago. There so many people letting Kenyans down.

[freegastanker1]

Uhuru Kenya is involved. How can you move some a large sum of money undetected??

[edenskid]

I am glad am not the only one thinks our journalists are doing a poor job - if the A.G. had been banned from traveling in another country, the horde of journalists that would have been camping at his office would have been enough to send him home. The questions they will be asking. The letters and calls they will be sending him. The questions to the president.  The interviews with LSK. The interviews with Kenyans. The bringing of all dirty shit would have been enough to send him home

[karuitha]

we need a Jeremy Paxman in Kenya to grill this ministers mpaka they resign. But in Kenya we have wimps of journalists who have no balls to interrogate a minister or any official connected with any kind of scandal. See how the AG saga died out, in any other country in the West, Wako should have been driven out of office in days. But wapi, he is still smiling yet he can't travel anywhere on official government duties.

[deemkati]

Mr Kibaki sir! I won't call you your excellence, have your secret service shoot me. But when you started the noble idea of free education you were darling to many especially many poor families. You brought joy back to a country that was ruled with an iron fist by two dictatorial regimes. It's your call to fix and protect the same poor people even if it means sacking all those profesors.

[MzeeMoja1]

Complete thieves, What a disgrace! Kibaki what will you do about this to defend your legacy?