More than 7.8 million (38.5 per cent) youth and adults in Kenya lack the minimum literacy levels required to participate in national development, Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi has said.
Kaimenyi revealed the details of literacy levels in Kenya in a speech read on his behalf by Chief Economist for Education Isaac Kamande during the World Literacy Day in Meru on Monday.
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