Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has said no parent will be required to pay any money for their children to sit the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams after the government failed to allocate funds for the administration of the national tests.
Speaking during an interview on Ramogi FM on Wednesday, May 14, Mbadi attributed the failure to allocate funds to the national examinations to an alleged abuse of the money by officials during previous years.
According to the Treasury CS, the annual allocation of Ksh11 billion to facilitate the printing and issuance of the national examinations was too much, adding that the money was immensely misused by some government officials.
Mbadi, while addressing the matter, noted that the funding was temporarily halted to allow the government to assess several issues pertaining to the usage of the money.
