A hearing on the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) that was scheduled to begin Tuesday, September 27, 2022, has been postponed by the High Court.
“The case of Esther Awuor Adero Angawa vs Cabinet Secretary responsible for matters relating to basic education will not proceed as scheduled because the judges will be away on official duties,”
Former Law Society of Kenya (LSK) President Nelson Havi inherited the case from Ms Esther Ang’awa, a court advocate who withdrew from the case citing negative profiling by the state and government agencies.
Havi is attempting to have the new education curriculum scrapped on the grounds that it is burdensome, expensive, and confusing to students, especially given the scarcity of facilities to support the new system.
Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha, who is a respondent in the case, asked the three judges in June to dismiss the petition because the new curriculum has begun and should not be hampered.
Judges Hedwig Ong’udi, Antony Mrima, and Antony Ndung’u, appointed by Chief Justice Martha Koome to preside over the case, refuse to dismiss it, claiming that it raises issues of great public interest.
Grade Six was introduced by the Ministry of Education earlier this year. Students will take their final national exam in December before beginning junior secondary school in January of the following year.
Ms. Ang’awa’s lawsuit named Prof. Magoha, the National Assembly, the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, the Kenya National Examinations Council, and the Teachers Service Commission, the teachers unions Knut and Kuppet, and Interior CS Fred Matiangi as respondents.
