A section of parents has demanded action from CS Amina Mohamed’s Education Ministry after claims that 50 primary schools have been teaching pupils homosexuality.
Through the Teachers Parents Association (TPA), they urged the state to probe sex education curriculum after a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) raised concerns.
TPA chairman Nicholas Maiyo stated that pupils as young as five years were exposed to the sex education curriculum that apparently backed abortion and homosexuality.
While responding to a report by CitizenGo Africa, an NGO, Maiyo further directed that those found responsible be locked up.
“Children being taught these vices is uncalled for and those teaching our innocent children and students should be investigated and locked up,” stated Maiyo.
On Tuesday, CitizenGO Africa had raised concerns over a new computer-based curriculum known as “World starts with me” programme that allegedly encouraged homosexuality and other vices considered immoral in Kenya.
CitizenGO Africa’s campaigns manager Ann Kioko claimed that the curriculum was teaching masturbation, promiscuity, sex rights, erosion and encouraging access to contraceptives.
The ministry of education officials, however, did not respond to our calls and text messages over the matter.
In July 2018, Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang acknowledged that homosexuality was a deep-rooted problem in boarding high schools across the country.
The PS stated that the government had since invested in guidance and counselling in an attempt to end the vice.
