NASA supporters in Nandi county, June 4, 2017. [Photo: Courtesy]The National Super Alliance (Nasa) and the ruling Jubilee Party are attacking each other, over free secondary school education.Both coalitions are using this as a campaign tool, ahead of August 8 polls.Jubilee's President Uhuru Kenyatta was the first to assure Kenyans that his government would provide free secondary school education, in case he is re-elected.Nasa also came with the same, during its political rallies, saying the Jubilee government had failed in education after promising pupils laptops, 'that were never delivered'."They have nothing to tell Kenyans. He's only good at propaganda. He's now saying he will provide free secondary school education, after he heard me telling Kenyans about it. He's good at copying," Uhuru said during his weekend rally in Nakuru.According to the president, his government has already budgeted for the free schooling, which would start January 2018, but Nasa has no budget for it."You don't just sleep, dream and wake-up thinking what you dreamt will happen. You have to plan," Uhuru said.On the other hand, Raila dismissed Uhuru, saying his government had already read the 2017/2018 Financial Year budget, and no money was allocated for free secondary school.Raila said his government would introduce the said free learning, starting September 2017, just a month after they assume power."We will introduce free secondary school in September. Not January, as Jubilee are saying. We will have a strategy and bring it immediately," Raila said during Nasa presidential campaign launch, in Kakamega, Saturday.

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