Nairobi, Feb. 6 -- Universities and schools have defied a State directive to disclose information about tender winners, hurting efforts to enhance transparency in the awarding of deals worth billions of shillings every year.

Disclosures show that only five percent (35 out of 672) of institutions of higher learning (universities, colleges, and technical institutions) and less than one percent (two out of 32,800) primary and secondary schools had updated the information as of the end of October 2023.

The disclosures by the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) highlight struggles facing the government in efforts to weed out graft and the lack of transparency on the beneficiaries of the tenders at the institutions every year.

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