Presidential hopeful David Maraga has strongly criticized Kenya's education system, attributing its decline to government underfunding, rampant corruption, and "shambolic" reforms like the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). He advocates for an "education reset" to rescue children from a failing system.

• Secondary school capitation has been cut by approximately 45 percent, from Sh22,244 to about Sh12,870 per student.
• Maraga, leader of the United Green Movement (UGM) party, claims Kenya has sufficient resources, but Sh1.1 billion was lost to phantom learners.
• He criticized the new university funding model as a "debt trap" and called for an end to the "shambolic CBC."