Ghost students? Puzzle of 2 million primary school learners missing from ministry records

Education authorities are seeking to establish why more two million primary school learners are missing from its education records, raising concerns over the accuracy of enrolment data used to plan and finance schools.

According to Mr Mujumba Obwoyere, a senior official in charge of overseeing the deployment of the Kenya Education Management Information System (KEMIS), the system has captured about 5.05 million primary school learners against an expected 7.2 million in public and private institutions.