TSC interdicts high school Principal after student accuses him of sexual harassment

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has interdicted a secondary school principal from Mwala sub-county accused of sexually harassing a student.

Machakos County TSC Director David Mukui said the principal was given a letter of interdiction on September 24, following the recommendations of a team probing numerous allegations against him.

The probe into the teacher’s conduct started last month, after a Form Four female student reported the sexual harassment during a live morning show on radio.

The girl reported that she also declined the principal’s offer to accompany him for a principals’ conference held in Mombas a few months ago.

According to the student, the principal had resorted to intimidating her after she declined to give in to his persistent demands to sleep with him.

Addressing the press at Tala Girls High School after holding a familiarisation and strategy meeting with primary school head teachers drawn from Kangundo and Matungulu sub counties, the TSC director revealed a decision had been arrived at to have the teacher interdicted.

“We followed all the procedures and we were able to trace the student and her parents. A team was also dispatched to investigate the matter in the school. Out of the report, the recommendations were that the principal had a case to answer,” said Mukui.

The TSC boss said the teacher was interdicted in accordance to the teachers’ code of regulations and based on evidence of the offences listed.

“He was directed to hand over the running of the institution to the deputy principal who now becomes the acting principal,” he added.

Mukui added that the case has since been registered at the TSC headquarters from where it will be handled by officers in charge of discipline.