NON LOCAL TEACHERS TREATED AS KINGS IN N.E.P

 

BY ADOW JUBAT

Knut officials from Northeastern region have accused their national secretary Wilson Sossion of inciting teachers not to work in North-Eastern region by standing with members absconding duty for the third week in a row.

Speaking to the Frontier Leaks, National Executive Council for Knut Northeastern region Ali Abdi Hussein said security has been restored in the region a fact that has made all other civil servants previously working in the region including Mandera County going back to offer their services.

Hussein called on TSC to sack all teachers who refuses to resume duties at their respective schools by next week and immediately recruit locals, who has good grades as untrained teachers noting that bowing to the teachers' pressure will open a Pandora box where other civil servants will follow the suit.

"We want TSC not to bow to pressure of its employees who want to move themselves to work in areas of their choice by force. These teachers were employed on our quota share of the teachers during employment and they shouldn't dream of moving with slots. They should either come back where they got employed or sacked immediately" He said.

"These teachers should know we have sufficient idle youth with good grades to replace them on UT basis as they get in service training. Our children can't be held hostage any longer" Knut NEC official said.

He said, contrarily to the lies, the said teachers were spreading in the media, the local teachers working in Northeastern were given preferential treatment such as house rents, free breakfast, lunch and dinner at the schools, and transports to and from their homes during the schools, an extra financial burden he noted the local people were generously offering the non residents teachers in bid to make their stay comfortable.

And on his part the Mandera Knut secretary general Mohamed Kullow Sheikh said some utterance and claims made by the teachers as an excuse of not going back to work in Counties in Northeastern, which started as security concerns has now took a nasty twist of wrongfully condemning communities in the region of un-existing accusation.

"As teachers union officials from the region, we have been maintaining our silence on some scaring remarks been repeatedly made by our national officials for quite some time, but we can no longer remain mum, when the protest which started over genuine security concerns ethnicity and religion dimension" the furious Sheikh said.

The officials accused Sossion of showing disrespect to his officials from the region by siding with the wild claims made by some teachers who have other motives blindly without first coming to the ground and investigate some of their allegation adding that the residents of the area including Knut officials are finding hilarious and insult what they are said about to the media by these truant teachers.

Sheikh said, some of the teachers now protesting at the TSC headquarters has been a thorn on the flesh of the local education offices requesting for transfers immediate they secured employment in Mandera County.

"Some of these protesting teachers have come to our county looking for jobs and shortly we offered them what they needed, they started to ask for transfer back to their home. Anybody can check files of some of the loudest protestors; they have been demanding for transfer more than 10 times, in a year. It is unacceptable for people to think they can come to our County when they need a job and want to go immediately they get one" He said.

On matter of non locals and non Muslim been charge higher rents by the local tenants, the Knut boss dismissed the allegation as pure lies adding that those making the claims should proof their allegations noting that as the locals union officials, they have been helping teachers get houses.

"Rents are always different depending on where a tenant choices to leave. House Rents in Mandera, just like in any other parts of the world is usually influenced by many facts such as the size, the proximity to the town and the type of the houses. You can't choice to live in a Bungalow in Mandera CBD and expect to be Ksh 500, just like you can't pay same rent for a house in Runda and Eastland in Nairobi", He explained.

The Mandera County Knut secretary said that they now got concerned over the hidden agenda of the teachers protested which started with security concerns been turned into a religion protest noting that majority of those introducing a religion angel in the issue, are teachers from Christian Teachers colleges.