President Uhuru Kenyatta nominees to TSC rejected again

By ALPHONCE SHIUNDU

KENYA: A parliamentary committee has rejected President Uhuru Kenyatta’s nominees to the Teachers Service Commission.

The MPs said the process was flawed and termed the nominees “old”. The MPs also rejected the nominees because they all had a background in education, meaning that a “mix of professionals” in the teachers’ employer body would be lacking.

They also noted that the list was unconstitutional because the disabled had been ignored, even after they went through the interviews and performed very well.

The chairperson of the departmental committee on Education, Science and Technology, Sabina Chege (Murang’a), tabled the committee’s report in the House after interviewing all the six nominees who had been picked to sit on the teachers commission.

According to the report, the committee now wants a fresh selection panel to be formed to begin the process afresh.

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President Kenyatta had nominated Kiragu wa Magochi as chairman of TSC. He also picked Albert Fred Ekirapa, Jacinta Kapiyo, William Makubo, James Nkoroi and Mohammed Mwinyipembe as members of the commission.

The MPs were also shocked that the name of one nominee, William Makubo, had been forwarded to the National Assembly yet he was not on the list of names the selection panel submitted to President Kenyatta for formal appointment.