Leader of Minority Party in the National Assembly Opiyo Wandayi has challenged the country’s teacher unions to give him the list of teachers they claim are dead but were recently promoted by the teachers’ employer, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
Speaking in Suna West during a recent Stakeholder’s forum organised by Suna West MP Dr Peter Masara, Wandayi who is also Ugunja MP said that the unions have been claiming that retired and dead teachers were promoted, but they have never come out and given the list of the said teachers, so that he can squarely deal with the matter.
“If you say they have promoted dead teachers, give me the names, and how many are they and where, and if you say they have promoted teachers who retired give me the names, so that we help these teachers who are doing wonderful job under very difficult circumstances,” said Wandayi.
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Wandayi asked Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and Kenya Union of Post Primary Education (KUPPET) not to continue remaining reactionary to the issues affecting their members since they will not be effective.
“You must, as a union, be able to proactively deal with the issues that affect your members,” said Wandayi.
There has been outcry from the unions that the Commission didn’t promote the deserving teachers in the recent promotions, with those teachers who have acted for long missing out in the promotion list.
KUPPET Busia Executive Secretary Moffats Okisai in a recent interview with Education News stated that it was so unfortunate for the Commission to have gone against its own score guide which gave those teachers who have acted and stagnated in one job group for long an upper hand.
“According to TSC marking, most of them were meeting the requirement. If somebody had acted, there were marks allocated, so those who had acted for long were sure of promotion. To our surprise, such cases were just left out!” wondered Okisai.
By Roy Hezron and Brian Ndigo
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