The Speaker of Parliament Moses Wetang’ula has exposed what he called “imbalance of teachers” in secondary schools in Trans Nzoia County and called for an immediate resolution.
Speaking at Kolongolo Girls Secondary School in Kwanza constituency over the weekend, Mr Wetang’ula said despite the government having recruited 100,000 teachers for deployment to schools countrywide, some institutions were still reeling under staffing issues.
He pointed out while most schools in towns and other municipalities had more teachers than the subjects they tackled, the learning institutions in the rural areas were facing an acute shortage of the teachers.
He spoke when he represented the area MP Ferdinand Wanyonyi to distribute bursaries and cheques from the NG-CDF to local students and schools following the continued absence of the legislator in area because of his health issues.
The Speaker of the National Assembly stunned the crowd when he disclosed that Kolongolo Girls had a shortage of 28 teachers and asked the Ministry of Education MoE to take up the matter seriously and rectify the situation. He said other schools in disadvantaged areas were facing similar challenges of unequal distribution of teachers like Kolongolo Girls.
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Mr Wetang’ula’s concern came hardly a week when the new Trans Nzoia branch Kuppet officials had raised alarm over the alleged selective transfers and promotions of teachers to leadership cadres in the county.
Through the branch chairman Paul Weyama, the onion lametend of the a well-crafted denial of the general transfers of teachers and promotion of deputy principals to full headship despite them having the requesite qoulifications and after being succeefully interviewed for the higher positions and grades.
Mr Weyama together with the branch Executive Secretary Dan Kutai and treasurer Ken Prichani also slammed at the new wave of principals in the county being harassed by politicians and other community leaders orchestrating for their external transfers.
And while talking in Kwanza constituency, a perturbed Wetang’ula touched with the erstwhile deployment of teachers to local schools said more teachers were set to employed this year and asked the Teachers Service Commission TSC to act responsibly by distributing teachers equitably in all corners of the country.
He further cited consistent lack of enough teachers in the learning institutions as lead reasons to poor performance in the national exams adding the anomaly laid squarely on the TSC which had overlooked the problem for long now.
By Abisai Amugune
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