Feature: Kenya’s Education in Crisis: Billions Lost to Underfunding and Ghost Schools.

16 July 2025

Kenya’s public education system is on the brink of collapse, suffocated by chronic underfunding, systemic mismanagement, and alarming cases of financial malpractice. A damning special audit report by Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has laid bare the extent of the crisis, revealing how schools across the country are struggling under the weight of unpaid debts while millions of shillings in public funds are being funneled to non-existent institutions.