Pupils were to get free laptops and their books revised and made digital, well it has remind a developing project for quite a long time. We only heard of some children being given the prototype among them were ‘shule za mashinani.’
Now the project when silent, the laptops are still being bought, and since the ones that are here are just laying around one Nairobi woman (a beneficiary of the free laptop project) decided to show off her new technology and guess what it was our children’s laptop.
It’s a world of technology, and even wedding paparazzi are struggling to make it because everyone carries their own camera. So this woman may have thought it was a good idea to take the government class one children laptops to look trendy.This particular woman was spotted taking photos at a wedding using one of the free tablets issued by Government to Class One pupils.
She seemed happy, lively and not concerned about using the education gadget personally.These tablets were launched under the digital literacy programme by the Jubilee administration.
President Uhuru Kenyatta promised to give each Class One student a tablet if he triumphed in the 2013 general election. He later altered the promise to a laptop.
But the government has seemingly encountered challenges in effectively rolling out the project and in 2017, two men were sentenced to three years in jail after they were found guilty of stealing the tablets.