{"id":243893,"date":"2026-09-10T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mps-demand-answers-over-sh300mn-kuccps-placement-fee-debt\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:33:08","slug":"kenya-mps-demand-answers-over-sh300mn-kuccps-placement-fee-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mps-demand-answers-over-sh300mn-kuccps-placement-fee-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: MPs Demand Answers Over Sh300mn KUCCPS Placement Fee Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has come under scrutiny over Sh300 million in unpaid placement fees owed by institutions, with MPs demanding details on the defaulters and measures being taken to recover the money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The National Assembly Education Committee wants KUCCPS to disclose the categories of institutions that have failed to remit the Sh1,500 placement fee charged for each student placed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The issue emerged on Wednesday when the committee,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609100024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has come under scrutiny over Sh300 million in unpaid placement fees owed by institutions, with MPs demanding details on the defaulters and measures being taken to recover the money. The National Assembly Education Committee wants KUCCPS to disclose the categories of institutions that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":243894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,16007,6861,7617,9136,4688,430,47936,7260,257,49365,55396,254],"class_list":["post-243893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-answers","tag-debt","tag-demand","tag-fee","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kuccps","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-placement","tag-sh300mn","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}