Friday, 6 June 2014

Kshs 26 million for ECDE teachers employment- Kitui county


By John Njue
Early childhood development teachers in Kitui County are expected to benefit from upcoming ECDE teachers employments, says his excellence the governor Dr. Julius Malombe.

The fate of thousands ECDE teachers employment in Kenya are uncertain after a month of conflicts on who is supposed to employ the said teachers. Some are claiming that the governors have no role to play in employment of ECDE teachers but the mandate lies fully to teachers service commission (TSC).

Some counties including Kitui County is alleged to have taken advantage of employing Nursery school teachers before the parliamentary committee on education could push the amendment of basic education act barring them from employing them.

It’s alleged that the county does not have scheme of work as it’s expected for teachers, secondly it’s claimed that governors want political mileage from employment of teachers. 

Despite the claims Malombe said that his government has allocated 26million shilling for employment ECDE teachers. He added that Kitui County has already employed 2800 teachers for the last one year and that the directives barring county government from employing early child hood education teachers will affects only those counties that had not started the employment. He said this while presiding over world environment day at Kyuso stadium.

On responding to claims that Mwingi north constituency was affected during the county government allocation of job appointments. He said that the county government has only employed 260 employees and the rest were absorbed from the previous local government which includes Town, Municipal and City councils. He added that out of 260 appointments people from Mwingi north shouldn’t be complaining.

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