The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has called for a national wide peaceful demonstration today in support of the Junior Secondary School (JSS) intern teachers who have vowed not to return to classes three weeks now after the re-opening of the schools.
In a memo signed by the KUPPET, Narok Branch Executive Secretary Charles Ngeno dated May 24, 2024 addressing the Officer Commanding Station (OCS) Narok Police Station and seen by Education News today in Narok town from 10am.
Ngeno said that the purpose of the demonstration will include demand Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to withdraw its appeal on the ruling made at the Employment & Labour Relations Court which ruled that the JSS teachers should be employed in permanent and pensionable terms as they are already qualified teachers.
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Also, call upon the TSC to honour the court ruling and confirm all JSS interns as well as to compensate interns, as directed by the court ruling, for the period they have served.
At the same time, the KUPPET, Kisumu Branch Executive Secretary Zabion Awange wrote similar memo to the OCS of the Central Police Station, Kisumu calling for security for the planned demos today from 9am-11am which will commence from Oile Park to TSC county headquarters at prosperity house.
Also, the Nandi KUPPET Branch Executive Secretary Paul Rotich has requested the Kapsabet OCS to accord the union teachers with security as they will be holding peaceful demos aligned with their counterparts JSS intern teachers from the union office to Kapsabet Town then to TSC at County Commissioner’s Office and back to the KUPPET offices in the county. The demos are scheduled to take place between 10am and 5pm on today.
In Samburu County, teachers will be conducting the demos on May 29- 31, 2024 from 8am to 12pm as scheduled by the KUPPET Samburu Branch Executive Secretary Lengoyiap William from Sunrise Plaza to the TSC director’s office in Maralal.
“We shall assemble at the members club and thereafter demonstrate to the TSC County Director’s Office to submit our petition on the same. The demonstration shall be peaceful and thus we ask your office to accord us security,” the memo read in part.
The union accused the government of ignoring 46, 000 intern teachers for the three weeks the strike has been on in most counties across the country which has seen learning being paralysed.
By Vostine Ratemo
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