The National Assembly has been cleared by the High Court of any fault in relation to the roll out of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC).

 Delivering judgement in the case dating back to 2021, the High Court dismissed the Petition in which the National Assembly had been sued alongside the Ministry of Education, two former Cabinet Secretaries for Education and others over alleged illegalities in the roll out of the CBC.

 In their judgement, High Court Judges, Justice Hedwing Ong'udi, Justice Anthony Ndung'u and Justice John Chigiti exonerated the National Assembly of any illegalities in enactment of laws that facilitated roll out of the CBC.

 The Court also issued orders for the Ministry of Education to initiate amendments to the Basic Education Act to align the structure of education with the CBC system within 120 days.

 The Judges further directed that the Ministry should initiate the full implementation of the recent Report of the Presidential Working Party on CBC.

 "The first respondent (Ministry of Education) shall set up a committee to ensure the implementation of the recommendations of the Report of the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms dated June 9, 2023 within 90 days," ruled the Judges.

 During the hearing of the case, the National Assembly indicated that passage of Sessional Paper No. 1 of 2019 that facilitated roll out of the CBC had been passed by the House in accordance with the Constitution and its Standing Orders.

 "The National Assembly did not infringe on any Article of the Constitution. We have adequately established the Constitutionality of the Sessional Paper as a whole," argued the National Assembly during the hearing of the petition.

 The National Assembly added, "The petitioner's contentions are thus misconceived and a false representation of the purpose and intent of section 41 of the Basic Education Act and the revamp of the curriculum was done within the confines of the Constitution and the Act."  

 Former Cabinet Secretaries for Education, Dr. Fred Matiang'i and Prof. George Magoha had also been listed as respondents to the Petition, alongside the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), the Kenya National Examination Council (KNUT) and the Teacher Service Commission (TSC).

 The Petition was filed by lawyer Esther Ang'awa who was later substituted as a Petitioner by former President of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), Mr. Nelson Havi.