Jubilee government’s digital literacy program, which includes the promised personal tablet One student from a public school in every state has made their way to the Ugandan market.
A sharp-eyed Kenyan who uploaded a Facebook page of a vendor advertising the tablets, which sell for Sh4,000, made the findings (UGX 150,000). The vendor claimed to be situated in Kampala and to run a Facebook advertising page.
According to Nairobi News, another vendor is also selling the tablets for as little as Sh3,700. This pricing was offered by a buyer who was introducing his supplier to further customers.
The government of Kenya pledged that 23,951 public elementary schools will receive a digital literacy program when it debuted in 2014.
A total of 1.2 million learner digital devices were planned to be distributed to Kenya’s 23,951 public elementary schools as part of the government’s introduction of the digital literacy program in 2014.
Following the ICT Authority’s introduction of the salvaged procurement in 2015, the government announced that a total of Sh17 billion will be spent to purchase 1.2 million laptops for students in Standard One.
Due to financial considerations, the policy changed from laptops to tablets during the introduction of the digital literacy program in May 2016.
The government decided not to continue providing tablets to class one students in 2019 and instead chose to create computer labs for 25,000 public primary schools across the nation. However, not every student in primary schools had gotten the tablets at the time.
The delivery schedule called for the provision of 600,000 devices by the end of June 2016 and the remaining 600,000 by the end of 2017.
In 2016, robbers stole hundreds of brand-name tablets from four schools in Bungoma County.
Seventy-one of the stolen drugs were found in Uganda in 2021.
The devices were found, according to the police, after a suspect from Uganda who was riding a motorcycle while carrying them was detained at an unauthorized border crossing.
