Education secretary Fred Matiang'i.[Photo/Nation]Financial difficulties for the the State corporation seem to be over after Posta signed a contract to deliver 21 million books to primary and secondary schoolsPosta had struck the deal with the Kenya Literature Bureau (KLB), one of the publishers contracted by the government in a new scheme where the State is directly purchasing books for students.Posta will deliver three million books to Form One students by 9th January in the first trench.Posta is charging a fee of Sh15 per book, banking a total Sh45 million. Posta says that it will renegotiate its fee for delivering the other 18 million meant for Standard Seven and Eight pupils as well as Form Two, Form Three and Form Four students.“It’s a great way for us to start the year, this is the kind of business we want to do big government logistics,” said Mr Kagwe.The government would begin buying textbooks for students directly, in a scheme that the ministry estimates will save the country Sh13.8 billion says Education secretary Fred Matiang'i .Government plans to deliver 33 million books to schools in the first phase, meaning that Posta has a transport contract for more than half of the books, this is according to Julius Jwan, head of the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD).KICD awarded tenders to five companies to publish the books for the first phase of the project KLB, Moran Publishers, East Africa Publishers, Oxford University Press, and Longhorn Publishers.

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