The decision by the Government to impose VAT to the textbooks--a move that will increase their prices by upto 50 pc--is inappropriate.Considering the importance of education in Kenya and the world at large,the increment will only serve to sideline thousands of children whose parents cannot afford to procure expensive books.Indeed,the Government should abolish all vatable materials associated with furtherance of education so as to promote a culture of reading. The same way the Government initiated Free Primary Education,it can still extend an olive branch to other equally important areas pertaining to education.
James Mwangi Kanyi,Nairobi.
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