Teachers will finally be posted at St. Gabriel Isongo Secondary School in Mumias East, Kakamega after the community through the school Board of Management (BoM) assured that necessary measures had been put in place to ensure the security of teachers.
The resolution was reached yesterday during the school’s board and stakeholders meeting chaired by the Deputy County Commissioner (DCC) where it was agreed that the school Board will now have to negotiate with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) on the modalities to post teachers in the school, after assuring the Commission that there will be no future attacks in the school.
Kakamega County Director of Education (CDE) Hellen Nyang’au told Education News that the board will ensure all logistics will be dealt with within one week, adding that they are going to have a series of meetings from next week.
“It was resolved that they [the Board] are going to inquire with the employer because now they have to put all the measures in place, in particular the security of teachers. They have said that they are going to ensure teachers are secure because parents have agreed that what was done was wrong and they apologized. The Board members are going to request TSC on behalf of the Community so that TSC can post teachers in the school,” said Nyang’au.
TSC transferred all the 17 teachers from the school after the Principal was attacked by parents over alleged poor performance in the 2023 KCSE examination, a situation that forced Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) to ask TSC to transfer the teachers to other stations.
By Roy Hezron
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