The Kenya education Cabinet secretary(CS) George Magoha has turned down the demand to teachers for pay rise of their salaries. The teachers wanted a 60% salary increase which the CS termed as abnormal. On the other hand, the Kenya National Union of Teachers(knut), asked for a review of the 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement by the Teachers Service Commission(TSC).
“I can tell you that their demand is mostly unreasonable because the government is spending 25.9 per cent of the national budget on education. Let us not pretend and politicize everything. There’s no way the government can give teachers a 60 per cent salary increment,” said the CS.
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When the CS was questioned on how he spent the Sh85 billion, he said, “I stopped the leakage of public funds from Jogoo House. When the Auditor-General sends questions to our department, we answer them and when we are called to Parliament, we also provide answers. Parliament and the Auditor-General have all the answers that we provided. Do you think government money can be stolen under my watch?
“For the period I have been in the ministry, I have done my best. If my best is not good enough for you, then go and look for somebody else who can do better. But the facts are there and they can be measured.”
Mogoha also said that the admission of students to the junior secondary will be smooth and there is nothing the parents should worry about because the Government has put everything in place.
“We are on track. Our deadline is August 9 and if we maintain the same momentum, we shall have completed most of the 3,500 targeted classrooms. As a professional, I would like busybodies to leave me alone. Allow me to do the job I was assigned,” he added
This comes after the Ministry of Education received Sh1.9 billion to provide for 500,000 desks to schools.
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