President-elect William Ruto cannot scrap the Competencey-Based Curriculum as easy as he pledged to Kenyans during his campaigns.

This is according to Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha who said it would be practically impossible to discard the new curriculum especially after the government has invested so heavily in it.

Magoha on Friday said that while speaking to the media when he allayed fears of the system being discarded.

According to Magoha said what the government can do is only improve some aspects of the curriculum as there is a vacuum in government and millions of learners already under the system.

"There is never a vacuum in government and with 10 million children under CBC, no government is even going to consider removing the curriculum. They will basically just try to improve it by trying to make it better in certain aspects," Magoha said.

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Magoha cautioned that any attempts to abolish the CBC could stall since many learners have already adopted it.

The CS also said the transition of Sixth graders to junior secondary will be seamless as their teachers’ training is complete.

"We have trained Grade 7 and 8 teachers. Grade 9 students will be trained in January 2023 by the incoming government," Magoha said.

The CS also disclosed that the Education Ministry is expediting the completion of the CBC classrooms and made an assurance that all the facilities will be complete by the beginning of the next academic year.

Magoha was speaking against the backdrop of the Kenya Kwanza Alliance’s campaign pledge to scrap the CBC