The first phase of the Competency-Based Curriculum classrooms is now 83 per cent complete, Education CS George Magoha has said.
The national government is planning to put up 10,000 CBC classrooms this year.
Phase one of the project, with 6,447 classrooms, is expected to be ready by the first week of April.
Phase two of the project, which will have 3,553 classrooms, will be ready by the end of June, Magoha said.
He said they have so far completed the construction of 4,000 classrooms, out of which 2,500 units have already been delivered to the managements of various schools.
“In regards to CBC classrooms, we have done extremely well. Our target was to deliver the classrooms by the end of April. We are now at 83 per cent and five counties are already at 100 per cent,” the CS said.
He was speaking in Mombasa at Nyali deputy county commissioner’s office where he supervised the distribution and monitoring exercise of the first day’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exam materials.
Magoha said the counties, which are yet to complete phase one of the CBC classrooms project, will be pushed to deliver within the next two weeks.
Phase two of the classrooms project will resume immediately after the marking of the KCSE examinations.
Magoha said the Ministry of Education is going to maintain the contractors who were involved in phase one of the project, except a few who might have failed to deliver on time.
“The contractors who have delivered their work on time will be called back. If you are not a thief then there is nothing to worry about,” he said.
The national government allocated Sh8.1 billion for the construction of the CBC classrooms.
Magoha said they saved millions of money in the classrooms projects after the initial price per classroom was revised from Sh1.26 million to about Sh788,000, including taxes, said Magoha.
“We are saving more than Sh446,000 per classroom.”
He pleaded with the next government that will come in after the August 9 general election to ensure that CBC succeeds.
“I also want to challenge the coming administration, whichever one it is; they should be careful not to change something (CBC) because you do not like the person who initiated it,” he said.
(edited by Amol Awuor)
