William Ruto appoints his former for a special Kenya Kwanza project
William Ruto appoints his former for a special Kenya Kwanza project during a consultative meeting with University dons.
In a meeting with lecturers at Karen on Monday, 13, June, William Ruto vowed to improve the quality of Education if he wins the August elections.
During the meeting, the Kenya Kwanza presidential candidate William Ruto disclosed that he had appointed his former lecturer at the University of Nairobi (UoN) Prof Raphael Munavu to a team of intellectuals working on a charter to define the country’s academic direction.
Prof Munavu, a renowned professor, has a distinguished academic career that includes serving as Chair of the Kenya National Academy of Sciences.
He also served as Vice-Chancellor of Moi University and as the first Chancellor of Laikipia University.
He is now a chemistry professor at the University of Nairobi.
Along with Economist David Ndii, the DP assigned him to a team tasked with developing the Kenya Kwanza economic policy in April 2021.
Ruto stated that a proper education system, with lecturers at the top, is the bedrock of a nation’s foundation.
He additionally emphasized that a nation’s foundation is built on a strong intellectual foundation that can easily crumble if its quality is compromised.
“If you destroy education, you destroy a nation. So what we are saying here is very important. How we treat our lecturers, what curriculum we run, and how it is run is so crucial. That is why we are going to have a special day as Kenya Kwanza where we are going to prepare a charter on education.
“We have so many people working on it at the moment. We have professor Munavu and others. Munavu was also my lecturer at UoN. (We are working) so that we can have an understanding of where we are going with our education because that is the single issue that can influence what happens to us,” Ruto stated.
He further added that human capital, which is almost exclusively found on the education system, is fundamental in providing labour both locally and internationally.
“The quality of human capital we can deploy locally and internationally will be influenced by the kind of education we run. It will also be influenced by the people who run that sector,” he stated.
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