The auditor general’s office is categorical that Sh3.7 billion of hard-earned taxpayer cash ended up in the pockets of criminals under the guise of being sent to schools as capitation cash.
The money was wired as grants to ghost students in 270 schools.
The daylight robbery of public money in the Ministry of Education must make every public-spirited citizen ask themselves whether they are in the Wild West or in a country governed by law.
This heist, we have no doubt, was and continues to be carried out by senior bureaucrats because, as is widely acknowledged, fish must rot from the head.
No junior officer can steal billions from government without the collusion of senior managers.
The stench at the MoE must make Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba boil with rage and get the police to conduct a thorough probe, which should end with the culprits in jail.
Only last month, the ministry went public with the decision to scrap the examination fees grant on the pretext that it was short of cash.
The EACC must move with speed and put an end to the criminal enterprise in the ministry ruining the future of the very needy at the altar of self-enrichment.
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Quote of the Day: “Just because people are liars is no reason for us to be fools.” —American detective writer Erle Stanley Gardner was born on July 17, 1889
