County to employ 900 ECD teachers

By JAMES MUNYEKI

Laikipia, Kenya: Laikipia County Government is set to employ 900 teachers to teach in the early childhood development institutions.

Governor Joshua Irungu announced that the move is meant to offload the burden from parents who have been paying ECD teachers.

Every teacher, he said, would earn not less than Sh10,000. This is contrary to the current situation where the ECD teachers earn between Sh2, 000 and Sh4, 000.

According to the governor, the move will also improve education status in the region from the grass root level.

“We have to start from the lower classes so that we can have proper education status. In the past, ECD teachers have been neglected yet they are the ones who build foundation of our children,” he said.

He noted that the government will also engage in building proper classrooms for the nursery children.

Irungu was speaking in Nyahururu Town when he met teachers from the county to chat way forward on how to improve education standards in the region.