Does teachers' pay deal expose TSC as weak?

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s directive to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to pay teachers their September salary though welcome, raises serious issues about the constitutional independence of the agency.

Indeed, the teachers’ unions - Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) have been blaming the commission’s top management of incompetence following the five-week teachers’ strike.