Education Cabinet Secretary, Professor George Magoha has guaranteed that the new government led by president-elect William Ruto will pay the contractors building the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) classes.
As he inspected CBC classes in Bungoma yesterday, Magoha said that the delays in payment were as a result of the transition of the new government from the outgoing one.
“By the time we transit to the new government, I hope all the 10,000 classrooms will have been completed and those who will not have been paid, the incoming government to ensure that once the exchequer is open, we should pay the contractors very quickly. The classrooms have been contracted at a reasonably good price,” he said.
He assured the contractors that as soon as the new administration settles in, their dues will be paid.
The CS noted that the construction of the classes is at 99 per cent and that the remaining works would be completed tomorrow.
He later went on and applauded the contractors who ensured that the government completed the classes before outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta completed his term.
He asked his successor in the ministry to ensure that the contractors are paid what the government owes them.
The national government had intended to construct 10,000 CBC classrooms under the schools’ infrastructural development programme to facilitate its 100 per cent transition policy to secondary schools.
The first phase of the construction involved 6,497 classrooms while an additional 3,500 was to be done in the next phase.