Mombasa booksellers are decrying huge losses from what they termed as an increase of fake books flooding the market countrywide.
Led by Ali Safari, the booksellers told the press on Wednesday in Mombasa that despite the copies conforming to the new curriculum, the books’ sources cannot be traced.
“Out of all the challenges we booksellers go through, the printing of fake books which floods the market hurts us the most. These fake books, mostly sold on roadsides are being sold at throw away prices compared to the market prices of the genuine books in known bookshops,” Safari added.
They urged parents and guardians to be keen when purchasing books for their children and ensure that they buy the right copies from bookshops whose books were authored by writers that are certified by the Ministry of Education.
Their statement comes after the Director of the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) Dr. Julius Jwan warned booksellers and parents not to be lured into selling and buying books that do not conform to the new curriculum.
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