- Abel Kenyanchui has accused MPs of interfering with the TSC’s constitutional mandate, following remarks by Speaker Moses Wetang’ula alleging some legislators receive and sell TSC employment letters.
- Kenyanchui has demanded that Wetang’ula name the MPs involved and has called on the EACC to investigate the alleged sale of teaching job letters.
KUPPET’s Kisii Branch has accused Members of Parliament of interfering with the constitutional independence of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), following remarks attributed to National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula on the distribution of TSC employment letters.
Kisii Branch Executive Secretary Abel Kenyanchui, addressing a public gathering at Nyamache town on Tuesday, accused Parliament of overshadowing the TSC’s role, saying that if MPs are distributing TSC letters, the commission should be disbanded. “If Parliament has taken over the constitutional mandate of TSC to recruit and employ teachers, then let TSC be disbanded. You cannot have a constitutional commission that is only on paper while employment letters are being shared in State House like relief food,” Kenyanchui said.
His remarks came in response to comments attributed to Wetang’ula on August 22 in Bungoma, where the Speaker said: “There are some MPs whom I take to the President, and they are given as many as 10 teachers’ employment letters. Yet, you later hear that they have been selling those letters. If someone is struggling, for instance if you are a night nurse and you are asked to pay Sh400,000 to secure a teacher’s employment letter for your child, where will you get that kind of money?”
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Kenyanchui called on Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba to clarify the matter before it “explodes out of proportion,” particularly given the number of qualified teachers currently unemployed. “We are asking Education CS Julius Migos Ogamba to come out clearly and clarify whether teaching jobs are now political gifts from State House. He must address this before it explodes out of proportion. Our qualified teachers are at home, anxious, depressed, waiting for merit-based recruitment,” he said.
TSC has since responded through Circular No. 18/2026, dated August 27, 2026, terming Wetang’ula’s remarks “not true and misleading” and affirming that the issuance of employment letters remains its sole mandate under Article 237(2)(b) of the Constitution.
Kenyanchui has demanded that Wetang’ula name the MPs allegedly involved in selling TSC letters and called on the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to investigate the claims.
By Enock Okong’o
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