The country’s teacher employer Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will be meeting the National Assembly’s Education Committee next week regarding the recently interdicted teachers who were seeking transfer from the volatile North Eastern region.
This comes after today’s meeting between the aggrieved teachers and legislators under the leadership of the committee chair Tinderet MP Julius Melly. They were seeking Parliament’s intervention in the matter.
Melly noted that it was unfortunate for the Commission to arrest the teachers even after interdicting them, with his colleagues sympathizing and castigating the manner in which TSC handled the whole affair.
The teachers noted that they have undergone discrimination in the region from the locals as essential commodities are sold to them at a higher prices, even as the same people whose children are under their care call them gorillas.
They said some of them are now mentally ill and they don’t have a person to talk to and encourage them.
At one point, one of the teachers broke down in tears while narrating to the committee what they had to undergo while discharging duty.
The legislators gave the Commission an opportunity to appear before them on Tuesday next week in order to respond to some of the allegations raised in the petition, and also to tell their side of the story.
Speaking to Education News after the meeting, Kenya Teachers in Hardship and Arid Areas Welfare Association (KETHAWA) National Secretary Wangonya Wangenye said if TSC would agree to work with them, the issues the teachers raised can be addressed amicably. He had accompanied the teachers to the meeting.
By Roy Hezron
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