Wilson Sossion reveals a lot of corruption at TSC and asks for a probe.
Wilson Sossion, the head of KNUT, talking to reporters at the KNUT offices in Nairobi.
Wilson Sossion, who used to be the secretary general of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), thinks that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) should be looked into for possible cheating cases.
Sossion told Citizen TV on Monday that while he was working at the union, he saw a lot of cheating, such as teachers giving bribes to get hired.
Sossion asked why there are always new teachers hired even though there are no job ads. He said that the jobs are filled through bribery because applicants work together with government officials.
“You have to pay Ksh.350,000 to get a job as a P1 teacher, and some of these job letters are sold by government workers.” “It costs Ksh.500,000 to get a job as a graduate and Ksh.150,000 to get promoted,” he said.
“As someone who has worked in this field, I’m willing to be a witness in all of these forensic processes.” I’m ready to defend it anywhere, in court, because this is a very important subject. We are talking about how the lives of children in this country are being hurt.
So, Sessions asked the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), and the Auditor General to look into the claims as soon as possible.
“The level of corruption at TSC is so bad that angels would cry.” “This might mean that the commissioners and the CEO need to go home,” he said.
He even told the three institutions that they should pay attention to four main areas: the financial system and transactions, especially remittances from third parties; how teachers have been hired and promoted in the last five years; and policies within TSC that are not in line with the Constitution.
Sossion said that the biggest problem that is lowering the quality of education in the country is that there is a lot of corruption in the education sector.
At the same time, teachers across the country have gone on strike and have promised to stay off the job until the government listens to them.
Some of these demands were for 46,000 Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers to be hired permanently, for 130,000 teachers to be promoted, for the second phase of the 2021–2025 amended CBA signed by TSC and KNUT to start right away, and for the third-party deductions to be sent back to the rightful organizations right away.
KNUT said that after talking with TSC, the teachers’ boss said it had promoted 51,232 teachers, paid back the third-party deductions, and was now putting the new CBA into effect.
Meanwhile, teachers from the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) have refused to stop protesting in the streets for better health care, raises, and other things.
They want Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers to be made permanent and get pensions, among other things.
The KUPPET teachers’ demands have been met 90% of the time, according to Oyuu. He also said that the JSS teachers will be approved as permanent employees in a few months.
Wilson Sossion reveals a lot of corruption at TSC and asks for a probe.
