The regional Curriculum support officers in charge of Special Needs Education, (CsoSNE) have registered their frustrations after TSC underpaid them allowances same as their regular colleagues who trained within their counties.
The officers who always attended Trainer of trainees (Tots) training regionally and later retool teachers at the county level, lamented, what they term unfair for them not be given per diem allowances after travelling and spending nights out of their counties.
“In the April’s Tot’s training, an officer from TSC promised us that the Cemastea allowance schedule will be applied for CsoSNE who trained regionally but to our utter shock we are again paid as though we trained within our counties. This is totally unacceptable!,” quipped Fiona Mwaluma from Nyanza.
The officers had early this year registered their concerns to the commission over what it terms as non-consideration in a number of aspects in their working environment.
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Education News have learnt that despite covering the whole sub county just like the sub county directors, the officers are not facilitated to move around yet, they are expected to carry out learner assessment, stakeholder sensitization, teacher training and support across the sub county.
Worse still, the officers are reported not to earn special allowance which, the teachers they supervise in special schools and units earn.
It is also reported that, the officers have registered complains over underpayment in April’s retooling allowances with their county coordinators who are spread over the 47 counties.
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The officers have also requested TSC to decentralize their trainings to county level to avoid them travelling far and spending a lot on accommodation only to be treated as though they never travelled.
The officers who spoke to Education News further said that such incidences of underpayment and unfavorable working conditions are the main sources of demotivation among the commission’s employees. They implored upon the acting CEO to urgently address the rising demotivation among the field officers.
By Naboth Murunga
