A new row is expected pitting teachers against Teachers Service Commission (TSC) after the former started collecting signatures to send home some of the Commissioners.
Members of the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) have begun the exercise accusing their employer of refusing to increase their salary and failing to effect Union deductions so as to paralyze it.
Speaking in a KUPPET meeting, Kisumu branch chairman Zablon Awange further blamed the Nzomo-led Commission of colluding with AON insurance to deduct medical allowances from teachers without their consent.
“We are going to send the TSC mandarins home. They have compromised the independence of the commission and mid-wived the humiliation of teachers by denying them salaries,” Mr Awange was quoted by Daily Nation.
The teachers are said to be targeting a country-wide mark of 34,000 signatures before making good their threats.
This comes after Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi announced that performance of public schools in the released KCPE results had dropped from a mean score of 187.8 in 2014 to 180.7 in 2015.
National Chair of KUPPET Omboko Milemba attributed the dismal performance to a five-week strike which affected studies during the third term of the school calendar.
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