The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has nabbed non local tutors using altered National Identification Cards to secure jobs in Trans Nzoia County.
It is reported that a group of teachers seeking to be employed by TSC for the vacant positions meant for the Trans Nzoia quota were turned away after they could not explain their place of birth in Trans Nzoia raising suspicion over their records of originality.
Speaking to the press, TSC Trans Nzoia county director Solomon Leesewe said the fact that the job seekers could not produce their original and old generation IDs when asked raised alarm.
The candidates were later barred from the vetting process as Leesewe insists that the TSC regulations were currently promoting the hiring of teachers from their home counties.
This way, Leesewe noted that the TSC could balance the recruitment of teachers as they try to solve the staffing problem in schools in all the 47 counties countrywide.
According to TSC County boss, the illegal practice is mainly used in some disadvantaged counties by candidates posing as bonafide residents after changing details in their original IDs.
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It is alleged that the applicants visit the countrywide Huduma Centres and receiving the New Generation IDs with changed birth details which they present to TSC as original documents.
The most affected counties with the last- minute change of information on IDs are those bordering the international boundaries and inhibited by various ethnic communities.
For example, Trans Nzoia County is awash of incidences of foreigners and immigrants seeking for settlement having obtained public jobs and government services at the expense of the original residents.
The residents have water down the TSC policy of hiring teachers at the Sub-county levels, saying that this has played into cheating where successful teachers later apply for redeployment to their birth counties after five years in service.
“Actually, the idea of employing teachers in their localities is obnoxious since the teachers will find their way back to their homes through manipulated transfers”, says the outgoing Trans Nzoia Kuppet branch Chairman Eliud Wafula.
Wafula suggested that thorough and due diligence should be exercised by various stakeholders including teacher unions to authenticate the details of those pursuing to become teachers to curb on cheating and restore sanity in the profession.
By Abisai Amugune
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