Embakasi East member of parliament (MP) Babu Owino has urged president William Ruto to scrap off the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC), alleging that it was not working in Kenya.

Addressing teachers from the Coastal Region who were meeting in Malindi, Babu Owino slammed President William Ruto for allegedly contributing to the ailing education system in the country.

The Embakasi East MP explained that when the president got to power, he had higher expectations from him due to his background as a chicken and eggs seller but was disappointed with  the policies he had brought to the education sector.

The MP also criticised the government for making mathematics an optional subject, terming it a move to lower the education standards of the country.

Owino who was accompanied by Malindi MP Amina Mnyazi, Kilifi County Director of Governor’s Delivery Unit Fikirini Jacobs said he will only support the president when he makes education free from primary to university.

He said the current funding model for universities was only favouring a few individuals, leaving those from poor families to suffer.

Further, he said teachers have been suffering for a long time, getting poor salaries despite the huge role they were playing in educating people who end up earning more than they do.

On her part, MP Amina Mnyazi said as leaders they would not keep quiet even if they are in a broad based government if things were not going right.

She said they will speak out if teachers were being subjected to huge taxes which makes them get peanuts in form of salaries.

During the teachers meeting, a Prominent and successful Malindi Business man also urged teachers to save money and invest wisely if they would like to be successful in their lives.

He said teachers have been suffering mostly for making bad financial decisions that makes them subject to poverty after retirement.

A good example he said was a teacher taking a loan of Sh. 2 million to build a house so as to move from a rental house then end up being deducted a lot of money for years.

The Kilifi Director of Governor’s Delivery Unit on his part called on the teachers to work together and not look down upon their Junior Secondary School teachers as they were all comrades playing a key role in the education fraternity.

Azani Ngumbao, a representative of the JSS teachers called on the MPs to ensure they table a motion in parliament to state the exact position of the teachers whether they will be independent or under Primary school heads.

Further he said there was a need for JSS teachers to be allowed to have their own union so as to champion for their rights like the other teachers of primary and secondary who have KNUT and KUPPET.