Mavoko Primary School teachers claim that Bondeni Children Home and Rescue Centre based in Athi River town owes them Sh13,200 remedial fees which has accumulated for three months before schools closed in first term.
Addressing press in her office on Tuesday, Beata Wambua, the school's head teacher said the home's management had earlier made arrangements with various teachers of the orphans from class one to seven to offer them tuition, services she claimed the home failed to pay.
Wambua who attempted to deny management of the home transfer letters to its 17 children for admission to a private school said teachers who had offered the services had instructed her that the fee be paid before the transfer letter was issued to the home.
"I am under instructions from the teachers that tuition fees for their services be cleared before issuing the home's management with transfer letters," said Wambua.
Wambua said children in lower primary between class 1 and 3 pay tuition fee of Sh200 each month while those in upper primary between class 4 and 8 pay Sh300 monthly for the remedial she claimed they conduct between 7.00 am and 8.00 am and between 5.00 pm and 6.00 pm daily.
It took the home's representatives who had been accompanied by the orphans they were seeking clearance and transfer letters for more than 5 hours to plead with the head teacher to issue them with the document that was needed by the school to which the children were to be admitted.
The representatives urged the head teacher to issue them with the document as they organize to settle the tuition issues since the children were headed for admission interviews at the new school.
The head teacher gave them a joint transfer letter in trust that the home would settle the bills once the children were admitted to the academy.
Florence Gitau, the home's director, who separately addressed press at Nzau Primary School, the private school where the children got admitted said the teachers had been extorting them lots of illicit charges including the tuition fees which she claimed was illegal in public schools.
Gitau said the teachers were not happy with the children's transfer stating the 17 children and 6 others, 12 girls and 11 boys had gotten full education sponsorship from Christina Zirkoff, citizen of Califonia in USA who was touched with their plight when she visited the home a week ago.
She said the sponsor is the one who requested that the children be transferred to a private school for quality education and vowed that they would not pay the teachers what she claimed were illegal charges.