Observers are worried because it appears that Kenyan authorities want to tamper with the hands that rock he cradle .The Kenya National Union of Teachers , KNUT, say that more than 100 teachers have quit the profession following a government policy, implemented since last year, barring them from serving in their home counties.
Speaking on the sidelines of the African Confederation of Principals at Pride Inn Hotel in Mombasa, the KNUT Secretary-General, Wilson Sossion, claimed that the so-called de-localization policy is breaking many families whose kin are employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
Mr. Sossion said many teachers who were transferred have opted to resign or seek employment in county governments, noting that “a number of them have opted to take early retirement, others have moved to county governments and some are thinking about what to do. Don’t force any policies, it is dangerous and worse than poison,” he said.
Kenya boasts of having about 23,000 head teachers in the country’s primary school system with about eight thousand six hundred principals in the secondary schools.
The boss of the teachers union has already mobilized the membership to prepare for strike on September 1, this year, to show the authorities that it is futile to devise any policy without the input of those expected to implement such a policy – the teachers.
Mr. Sossion is of the view that the only way to avert the strike is for the Education Cabinet Secretary, Amina Mohammed, to meet with the teachers union in a frank tone and sort out their mutual differences. The KNUT boss warns that without such a forum academic activities for the third term of the year would be terribly disorganized for secondary school finishers.
The Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education is expected to close the conference Friday (today).
