A parents' organisation has accused the Ministry of Education of a skewed form 1 selection process.

The Kenya National Association of Parents said its investigations have revealed that more than 2,000 slots have been reserved in the 48 national schools.

"For instance, Mang'u has been instructed to admit 246 yet their capacity is 300 while Nakuru High can admit 225 but has been told to admit 174," Knap secretary general Musau Ndunda said.

He said Knap suspects the over 2,000 slots will be auctioned to the highest bidder.

Ndunda said he has written to anticorruption authorities and the criminal investigations department to investigate the matter with a view of prosecuting the culprits.

The Knap secretary general said the ministry should come clean and explain who was going to fill the slots and what criteria the ministry is using.

"I spoke to a senior ministry official and showed him my evidence but all he could say was that a computer error was responsible and no slots had been reserved for anybody," Ndunda said.

He was speaking at the Machakos Catholic Church hall where he hosted teachers from Machakos district for a two-day seminar on disaster prevention and management.

Ndunda said disasters in schools could be avoided and added that the national disaster management policy should be implemented to end unnecessary accidents in schools.

"Do we even bother to check the condition of the vehicles that ferry our children in school trips?" he asked.

Ndunda said it is wrong for students to travel at night as our highways have turned into death traps claiming thousands of lives every year and school vehicles should be constantly checked to ascertain their mechanical conditions.

The Knap boss said the current education system is bad and has failed to prepare students for the job market.