The Kenya National Union of Teachers Chairman and ODM nominated MP Wilson Sossion has railed against the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC)

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Speaking on Thursday at the union's headquarters in Nairobi, Sossion painted a doomsday scenario, describing the curriculum as elitist and worse than colonialism.

He contended that its roll-out would completely damage the prospects of children from poor backgrounds.

"It will open a great window of inequity. Coupled with poverty and the economic challenges we have you can imagine the kind of nation we will have and the destruction it will do to our children. 

The child of the poor man will have no opportunity anywhere in the world. Unlike at the moment where the child of a poor can be admitted to an Ivy League university and become somebody in life! It is an elitist strategy meant to destroy the poor," Sossion fumed. 

The KNUT supremo spoke a day after Education CS Prof Magoha said that the CBC would continue despite the protestations of the union. 

Sossion maintains that the curriculum was being forced down the throats of teachers who are important stakeholders in education in the country. 

Teachers across the country have been undergoing training for the CBC. 

Those who boycotted the training were dismissed by the Teachers Service Commission.