By Cally Imbayi
Kakamega Deputy Governor, Ayub Savula, has asked the government to scrap the new education curriculum saying that Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) is complicated to both learners and teachers.
Speaking at a fundraising for St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Navakholo Constituency in Kakamega County, an event which the National Assembly Speaker, Moses Wetang’ula was the Guest of Honour on Sunday, Savula said that the President should intervene to do away with
the new curriculum because Kenyans were not ready for it.
The DG further said that the curriculum should be halted to allow the government, teachers and parents to prepare adequately before it can be re-introduced.
Savula said the competence based curriculum which was introduced in Kenya by the Kenya Institute of curriculum development – KICD was very expensive because it requires both parents and teachers to invest much in it.
“Speaker Moses Wetang’ula, as you sit and converse with the President of the Republic of Kenya, please tell him that this thing is unworkable and Kenyans are not even ready.
“Let us prepare adequately before it is reintroduced. I have visited several schools and have found out that there are no teachers to teach in the junior secondary school section.
“Like for the case of Ayub Sabula Primary School, the CBC teachers are only two of which they cannot manage to teach all the pupils,” Savula said.
The Deputy Governor said the curriculum requires a lot of money as pupils need to be bought new school uniforms including trousers and neck ties, which parents cannot afford at the moment.
