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.
Rigathi Gachagua: The raiding of the pay slip has greatly reduced people’s earnings, household incomes, and affected purchasing power. Workers want their valuable pay slip. The people cried about the tax regime; traders told me they are experiencing the murkiest tax regime in Kenya’s history. They have been taxed into poverty
Jacinta Mwatela honed and sharpened her skills at the Central Bank of Kenya for 32 years.
She reached her peak, becoming the first female deputy central bank governor and the first female acting governor.
Unfortunately, in September 2008, her high-flying banking career was abruptly grounded.
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The distribution of TSC appointment letters for teachers by the President to Members of National Assembly for sale in exchange for support and votes is an all time low. It explains the continued collapse of basic education in Kenya, and a surge of illiterate elected leaders who do not value education.
Moses Wetangula shamelessly confessing that TSC letters are dished out to broad based allied Mps at State house,who then go and sell the letters for as much as 400k.
Teachers recruitment must be an institutional process, not a political campaign process.
Former Majority leader,Former minister under president Kibaki,Former Member of parliament for Kipipiri constituency,Hon Amos kimunya is one of the successful leaders Nyandarua has produced if not the best.
A very calm and smart upstairs man.
Moses Kuria: “At the rate Gachagua is making everyone an enemy, I keep fearing that some crazy guy might do a Lee Harvey Oswald solo act. God Forbid!”
Dear Moses Kuria, adding “God forbid” after floating an assassination analogy doesn’t turn it into concern. It turns dangerous rhetoric into something that sounds almost casual.
When senior politicians like you normalize political violence talk, you chip away at national stability. No feud is worth that risk.
Kenya does not belong to any one camp. It belongs to all of us.
Our Cabinet Ministers & Regulatory Bodies have allowed to be imported to Kenya:
Contaminated Maize & Sugar
Cooking oil unfit for human consumption
Adulterated motor vehicle fuel
Expired medicine
They have allowed buildings & roads to be constructed without quality control & in violation of building & planning codes.
Government officials will always defend incompetence, professional negligence & public theft out of political fealty or kickbacks! It is rare when a Government official stands up for the people. What Water Minister Eric Mugaa did in Homa Bay is a Big Shot across the bow for public integrity.
There is hope after all!
I’m humbled to be requested by my colleagues to lead the People's Forum for Electoral Preparedness.
As I always have, I will discharge this responsibility with integrity, with diligence and with fidelity to the Constitution of Kenya.
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