Education Cabinet secretary Julius Ogamba has responded following claims of unfairness from KUPPET and KNUT members on irregular promotions.
During the 60th anniversary of Kereri High school in Kisii held on Sunday, Ogamba avoided getting into the politics of the Teacher’s Service Commission’s alleged irregularities and maintained that clear parameters were being met on promotions.
He added that the commission was an independent one and was currently in the process of promoting new teachers as interviews were already complete for the same.
” Promotions come depending on available spaces depending on how you perform, then they will be done. It is being done by TSC and as you are aware TSC is an independent body,” Ogamba clarified.
He added: “We have just completed the interviews and they are now undertaking the exercise of analyzing to see who is going to be promoted.”
KUPPET officials on January 30th raised alarm over the criteria being used to allocate the promotion slots terming it unfair and discriminatory.
In the press briefing, the officials claimed that the promotion of teachers and distribution of resources across the schools was not being done equally across all the counties.
Moses Nthurima KUPPET’s Secretary General stated,” We want to see the commission allocate proportionally the slots of promotion which means the counties that have gotten the highest number of teachers must get the highest number of slots so that we act fairly in terms of spreading.”
“For that, we are demanding that the Teacher’s Service Commission use pro-rata to ensure that teachers are treated equally.”
KNUT’s first National Vice chairperson Malel Lang’at on Sunday February 6th, waded into the discussion terming the promotion of 25,288 teachers as insufficient to address career stagnation and professional growth across the country.
Lang’at placed the blame on TSC’s mission intended to staff schools in marginalized areas which had supposedly turned out to be a major cause of inequality in the exercise.
