KUPPET requesting salary increase for teachers in high-risky areas
KUPPET requesting salary increase for teachers in high-risky areas
For the three northeastern counties, as well as Turkana and Tana River, which are also experiencing security issues, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has asked that teacher pay be reexamined.The present hardship stipend for teachers does not accurately reflect the dangers they experience in these areas, according to Moses Nthurima, the Deputy Secretary-General.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki asked the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to send non-local teachers to the unstable northern counties for shorter periods of time before relocating them prior to the teacher protests. On August 2, Kindiki notified a parliamentary education committee that the unrest had an impact on the mental health of foreign teachers.
In addition, he said that some local communities have incited hostility toward outside educators, which has resulted in threats coming from these areas. To shield them from al-Shabaab attacks, the security minister advised temporarily concentrating teachers in one location.
Mandera County needs more than 2,000 teachers to fill openings in 300 public elementary schools and 550 public secondary schools, according to the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT). Because they ignored appeals from teachers in the northeast, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Internal Security were blamed for the terrible deaths of 28 teachers in Mandera eight years ago.
In their requests to the TSC for transfers or increased security, teachers have detailed unpleasant encounters with pupils, head teachers, parents, and county education administrators who made disparaging remarks about them as adhome (slaves), nguraro (having “hard” hair), and kafir (unholy).
