Stench from FPE Fund saga gets worse

That achieving universal primary education is the second component of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed upon by 192 UN member states and 23 international organisations cannot be gainsaid. The MDGs have a timeline for achievement by 2015 and are all focused on tackling mankind’s biggest challenge — that of reducing extreme poverty.

Last year, all eyes were on Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta as he read his first national budget. He confounded all skeptics and pronounced a raft of good news for stimulating the economy, especially the Education ministry, that saw an increase in allocation of Sh2 billion.