The education committee wants the reinstatement of the dismissed teachers.
The education committee wants the reinstatement of the dismissed teachers.The teachers Service Commission is now being asked by National Assembly Education Committee Chair Julius Melly to reinstate the instructors who were interdicted and assigned to Northern Kenya.
When the teachers moved to hold protests at the TSC offices in Nairobi, they were detained on the grounds that they had vanished with their work.
The teachers were protesting the unrest in North Eastern Kenya, which they claimed made it difficult for them to do their jobs.
Melly, who is also the Tinderet MP, claimed that TSC disregarded teachers’ concerns and added that no teacher should work in a dangerous environment.
During a gathering on Sunday in Tinderet Constituency, Nandi County, the MP spoke.
“When your life is in danger, you cannot teach. A lesson plan cannot be completed. The Tinderet MP said, “You cannot take care of a child when someone is threatening your life.
“You can’t work, you can’t even be an administrator in school because every other time you sit trying to work, somebody is after your life.”
He urged the TSC commissioners, who are also teachers, to try working in Northern Eastern Kenya so they could understand what it’s like to be stationed in Mandera firsthand.
I want to ask the commissioners who interdicted the teachers to give them a chance to attempt and work as teachers for a week or two. They should spend two or three weeks in Mandera working under challenging conditions alongside the teachers, staying at the same stations and living in police cells.
The instructors had camped out in front of TSC offices, demanding to be shifted due to Al Shabaab-related instability and hostility from the neighborhood.
The TSC had instructed the teachers to go back to their workstations before the interdiction arrived in September.
As a result, you are hereby interdicted as of September 22, 2023, and this applies to all teachers who were under the TSC’s employment.
The appeals procedure that the interdicted instructors must follow in order for their cases to be decided is described in the letters from TSC.
According to the letters, the teachers have 21 days to submit statements in support of themselves.
Additionally, the commission will give them a chance to speak in person.
Additionally, the teachers must specify the closest TSC sub-county offices for monthly reporting.
TSC requested that teachers present any further supporting data they may have. In addition, they must leave their positions and give the commission their phone numbers and email addresses.
Additionally, they have been required to give up their paid time off.
The education committee wants the reinstatement of the dismissed teachers.
