An educational lobby is questioning the rationale Teachers Service Commission (TSC) used to absorb relief teachers who were contracted during the last teachers’ strike in the country.
Track One Alliance for Learners Protection Organization Director Innocent Masara said only a handful of the relief teachers were employed.
Masara said the relief teachers helped parents and school children when teachers abandoned their work to press for better wages.
He said the government even failed to pay the relief teachers leaving them to languish in poverty.
Masara now said some of them have been put on permanent employment and questioned what happened to the rest who are left out.
“The commission is recruiting teachers employed on relief or temporary terms referred to as relief teachers to pensionable terms. However, the public needs to know the criteria being used to recruit,” he said.
Speaking to the press in Kisumu on Friday after sending a protest letter to TSC chief executive secretary Nancy Macharia, Masara said the commission should not discriminate in employment.
He further accused Macharia of failing to ensure that there is transparent in employment at the Commission.
Masara said the commission is an independent body that should carry out its duties overboard and avoid being run as an individual entity.
He demanded an audit of those who have been employed since the new CEO took over for transparency and accountability.
“We are seeking for transparency in all areas of the Commission on behalf of the people of Kenya in a bid to end issues of tribalism, nepotism and promote a transparent country,” he said.
Masara further questioned how the Commission recruited county director teachers’ management for 20 positions.
“There was an advertisement for the positions and the Commission did not specify the specific counties that needed to be occupied,” he said.