Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i. [Photo/nation.co.ke]
Booksellers in the country are stuck with dead stock ahead of the rollout of the new curriculum tomorrow.They say that the government did not issue them with clear timelines on when the new curriculum would be rolled out.''We did not receive timely communication on when the new curriculum would come into force. It was sudden and now we have dead stock stuck with us, meaning a loss to us,'' Humphery Rashid, a bookseller in Nairobi says.Th Ministry of Education revealed that the new curriculum will only apply to lower primary kids (class 1-3).Parents who visited bookselling stores complained that the new curriculum books had not yet hit the shelves of bookshops.