The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Kisumu branch has accused the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) of abdicating its responsibilities to politicians.
The branch Executive Secretary Zablon Awange regretted that TSC’s mandate to recruit, employ and promote teachers has been taken over by politicians.
“We have recently seen politicians and even cabinet secretaries dishing out employment letters in public,” he said.
Speaking at St. Teresa Girls Secondary School, where TSC Chairperson Dr. Jamleck Muturi had visited, the official said that the move was wrong adding that the politicians only dish out the letters to their supporters and relatives.
Awange also said that there exists a lot of discrimination in the promotion of teachers in the county.
He said that some teachers who have brought up the issue in the past have been transferred as a form of disciplinary action.
The KUPPET boss thus tasked government authorities to evaluate cases of teachers who have been fired over various issues and pardon those whose cases are flimsy.
By Fredrick Odiero
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