"Rule of Law and respect of human rights", when the Kenya Police is led by a murderer and abductions and torture procurement specialist, Eliud Langat.
Sit this one out.
Samuel Herry: Somebody said TSC letters are being sold for KSh 400,000, military jobs for KSh 750,000, and goons are being paid KSh 1,000. Yet the same person wants us to vote for him
#k24mashinani
It was my absolute pleasure to share my experiences and insights with the Forum of Young Aspirants today at Ufungamano House. As I have said before we are building a movement for young people and the efforts this Forum has put into organising platforms to exchange ideas is quite commendable!
The Speaker of the National Assembly admitted that he takes MPs to State House where the President hands them 10 TSC employment letters each, letters that are then sold for up to Sh400,000 apiece. This is not a joke. This is not politics as usual. This is a constitutional violation.
Article 237 of the Constitution gives the Teachers Service Commission exclusive authority to recruit and appoint teachers independently, on merit and without political interference. When the President, the Speaker, and MPs turn teacher recruitment into a patronage scheme, they are not just bypassing the TSC. They are dismantling one of the key independent institutions designed to protect public service from capture.
Qualified graduates are losing out. Young teachers who have waited years, interned, sat exams, and played by the rules are being pushed aside so that political favourites can buy their way into classrooms. Meanwhile, the very people sworn to uphold the Constitution are profiting from its breach, selling public jobs like commodities, treating education like a cartel.
The scale of the injustice is stark. TSC data shows a national teacher deficit of about 96,000–116,000 posts, with Junior Secondary Schools alone short by at least 72,000 teachers. Yet more than 300,000 trained teachers remain registered but unemployed, while appointments are being dished out at State House. In other words, classrooms face a massive teacher shortage, while a large pool of qualified, unemployed graduates should fill those gaps through transparent, merit-based recruitment.
This demands investigation. It demands accountability. If the Speaker can admit this on camera and face no consequences, then the Constitution is dead letter. The state must either respect the law or be held to it.
At 23, immediately after graduation, I was seconded to advise a VC on legal compliance matters. I found Gen X and Millennials to be the most receptive. This consulting thing has no age, provided you've read and understood the nitty-gritty of your stuff! Intergenerational equity!
Ndugu @EugeneLWamalwa and his niece Alice dropped by the office today to present me with the Late Michael Kijana Wamalwa’s book “My Country First” . I thank the entire Wamalwa family for their contribution to this Nation’s history and hope that we will continue walking together to see the dreams Mike had for the country become reality.