Former nominated MP and ex-Kenya National Union of Teachers boss, Wilson Sossion, has dismissed the education sector in Kenya, saying the competency-based education, CBE, has proved not to work.

Speaking in an interview on a local TV station on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, Sossion said that the problem in the education sector has not started recently, insisting that the country has fallen short on intensely focusing on the challenges as they emerge without tracing back to examine the root cause of the problems the education sector is currently facing.

Considering quality in schools

Sossion has further stated that the country should focus on the delivery of quality education in all schools, and this includes more quality teachers, teaching, as well as learning tools.

He has further stated the importance of concentrating on infrastructural development in schools.

“We might be over-enrolling students in some schools, causing massification and congestion in certain schools and creating imbalance. The ministry must control enrollment based strictly on the availability of vacancies, not on popular interest,” Sossion said.

The former Knut boss has recently been a big critic of CBE, with his remarks coming at a time when parents and the new Grade 10 entrants have been facing challenges to cope with the new education system siting a lot of requirements and the cost that comes with the transition.

Avoiding discrimination in resource allocation

 Sossion has now called on the Ministry of Education to consider working with other education stakeholders at the grassroots level, and that education should not be politicised and that resources in schools should be distributed with fairness, regardless of regions’ voting patterns.

He has also added that it is prudent for the Ministry of Education to balance enrollment to avoid over-enrollment in some schools while others are under-enrolled.