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Kenya: Nowhere to Hide for Ghost Teachers
Nation, 18 May 2021
The days of 'ghost' teachers who reap where they never sowed could be numbered following the launch of a new biometric registration system that is intended to weed out rogue… Read more »
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Kenya: How Rogue Officials Inflated Enrolment, Used Ghost Schools to Steal Billions
Nation, 6 April 2021
A ghost school exposed in a parliamentary report last week is among four institutions a publisher could not trace in 2018, giving a glimpse into how long corrupt education… Read more »
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Africa: African Countries Embracing Biometrics, Digital IDs
Africa Renewal, 5 February 2021
From the spread of digital apps, like the Nigerian-based FarmCrowdy, which is helping farmers utilize technology to improve their operations, to Mpesa - the mobile money in East… Read more »
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Kenya: NMS Begins Weeding Out City Ghost Workers, Impostors
Nation, 26 November 2020
Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) has kicked off a staff validation exercise that is aimed at weeding its workforce of ghost workers and imposters. Read more »
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Kenya: Scandal of Thousands of Ghost Learners Revealed
Nation, 16 November 2020
Taxpayers have been losing billions of shillings every year funding the 'education' of more than half a million ghost learners, Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has… Read more »