Nairobi-based lawyer Donald Kipkorir on Thursday wrote a letter to Education CS Fred Matiang'i telling him he should be ashamed of the 2017 KCSE results.
In the letter, Mr Kipkorir states that the examination registered a success rate of 11% and a failure of 89% since roughly 70,000 qualified to join university.
"If Dr. Matiang’i was a Minister for Education in any European Country, together with entire KNEC officials, they would have resigned... If they were in China, they would have been hanged already.
"No Country worth its name gets a failure rate of 89%. There is nothing to be proud about," he wrote.
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The 2017 KCSE saw only 142 students score grade A, which was a slight improvement from the 141 who scored the same grade in 2016.
"Such a failure rate is confirmation of an education system that has wholly failed and demands criminal, political and moral responsibility," lamented Kipkorir.
He also questioned the objective of Kenya's education system as he wondered why all top students rush to pursue medicine and surgery.
"What is our objective in our education system? Whom do we want our best to be? Doctors? Engineers? How come none of the best wants to be a Teacher, Agronomist, ICT inventor, Medical Researcher, Policeman, Forest Officer?
"Is it indictment of our system that we inculcate on innocent minds that to succeed one must be a Doctor or Engineer?" he posed.
The lawyer warned Kenyans not to celebrate the results too much because every country in the world has a success rate of over 65% that qualify to University while Kenya's is 11%.
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