Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha on Thursday, September 8, offered pieces of advice to President-elect William Ruto on how to handle the Ministry.
Addressing the press in his CBC inspection tour in Mombasa and Kwale Counties, Magoha also confirmed that he was ready to leave the office, with President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration coming to and end.
He challenged the President and his successor to prioritise service delivery to all Kenyan children by fast-tracking the Ministry's expenditure.
He also warned Ruto against politicising the education docket explaining that children's lives and future are constantly at stake.
"As I move away from this Ministry, the biggest elephant in the room that everybody must deal with, starting with His Excellency the President-elect to the most junior officer in the field, is to ensure that we get value for money.
"If there is a shilling in Kenya that should be spent on a child, it should be spent. not 90 cents or 10 cents. If that is done, it is my considered opinion that the Government is already providing money and we as the implementors are not doing what we are supposed to do," he explained.
During his tour, he noted that the second phase of Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) was 97 per cent complete with 9,800 classroom already done.
Magoha also highlighted his Ministry's attention to children from poor background as among the biggest achievements of his tenure.
"Our conscience as we leave is very clear that we have paid attention to the weakest link and that is the child in the slums who has no capacity to go to school otherwise," he added.
In his manifesto, Ruto pledged to address inequities in the country's education system to level the playing field for all children irrespective of their background.
Some of the measures he promised include review the current exam-based system of academic progression as well as improve capacity of day secondary schools to guarantee access to quality education and reduce the cost of education.
The President-elect also pledged to bridge current teacher shortage gap of 116,000 within two financial years.
