Government to release Free Secondary Education Funds Next Week

The government will next week release Sh16.25 billion to go towards Free Secondary Education capitation, State Department for Basic Education PS Belio Kipsang has announced.

The amount is equivalent to 25 percent of the outstanding capitation owed to public secondary schools across the country.

Appearing before the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee on Monday for an examination of the report of the Auditor-General for the year ended June 30, 2022, Kipsang noted that the government allocated Sh65 billion for Free Secondary Education capitation in the current financial year.

The PS pointed out that the Government has already disbursed 25 percent of the total capitation amount.

The PS noted that while the allocation is Sh65 billion, the capitation per student would not be Sh22,224 as the amount has been revised downwards to Sh17,000 in order to cater for all students owing to surge of Students in Secondary schools.