Teachers threaten to pull out from marking 2023 KCSE examinations!
-Kuppet has urged the Kenya National Examination council to clear all the pending dues
owed to hundreds of examiners across the country-
Moses Nthurima KUPPET Deputy Secretary General/Photo James Gitaka
Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers ( Kuppet ) has urged
the Kenya National Examination council to clear all the pending dues
owed to hundreds of examiners across the country.
The union Deputy Secretary General Moses Nthurima warned of failure by
KNEC to meet their demands; they will have no option but to pull out
their members from the marking of 2023 KCSE examination exercise.
Nthurima also cited poor working conditions and low remuneration for
their members as key reasons for their action adding that they will
not relent in pushing for the welfare of the markers.
The Kuppet national official was speaking at the African Inland
Church Chebisaas church hall during the union’s Uasin Gishu branch
Annual General Meeting on Saturday.
Nthurima faulted KNEC for taking the examiners for a right over a raft
of issues they have been agitating to be met despite the hours and
sacrifice they were putting in to ensure smooth marking of the
national examination papers.
“It will not be business as usual in the forthcoming marking of the
Kenya certificate of secondary examination exercised across the
country. We have instructed our members not to report to the gazette
examination centres until they get the green light from the union,”
said Nthurima.
He called for an urgent meeting with their employer, the Teachers
Service Commission and the Salaries and Remuneration Commission to
discuss and deliberate on pertinent matters related to the welfare of
the teaching fraternity in the country.
“It is prudent for the TSC and SRC to initiate an urgent meeting with
the union to resolve the matter to avoid the disruption of the
forthcoming marking of the 2023 national examination papers,” said
Nthurima.
According to Nthurima, key among the thorny issues they want to be
addressed to forestall industrial action is harmonization of the
secondary school teacher’s salary.
He wondered why their employer was discriminating against the teachers
when carrying out harmonization of the pay increase for the staff
attached to the teacher service commission.
“We have noticed a huge discrimination in the harmonization of
salaries for the secretariat of the Teachers Service Commission at the
expense of the teachers and yet we are both serving under one
umbrella,” lamented Nthurima.
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