Counties and TSC battle over hiring nursery school teachers

Meru governor Peter Munya congratulates the newly commissioned Meru county law enforcement officers on May 6,2016. The officers will help other law enforcing agencies in the county,to maintain law and order and ensure free flow of traffic in town. [PHOTO:PETER MUTHOMI/Standard]

County governments will continue to employ nursery school teachers despite objections by a constitutional commission.

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has claimed that county governments were overlapping its constitutional mandate by seeking to employ nursery teachers.