Parents, book sellers cry foul over shortage of textbooks
:Parents wait to be served at Eden Bookshop in Mombasa on Saturday while purchasing books ahead of the new term. Booksellers, parents, and publishers have expressed concern over the acute shortage of text books.
The Mt Kenya region reported a serious shortage of primary school textbooks.
Bookshop owners in Nanyuki said they face challenges in sourcing for Grade 1 to 6 textbooks.
Parents and bookshop owners have reported an acute shortage of core textbooks for primary and junior secondary schools that may affect learning when schools open today across the country.
The shortage primarily affects subjects that were recently reorganised and consolidated, as well as new books for Grade 9, which rolls out in schools today. The shortage has been reported even as the government acknowledged that the distribution of free textbooks to public schools was incomplete.
