Knut wants fresh vetting of officials

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) wants all the 47 county directors of education to undergo fresh vetting.

Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion claimed the Ministry of Education did not follow a competitive process in recruiting the officials.

Speaking during the induction day for Kericho and Bomet union officials at Getarwet Girls Secondary School in Kericho County, Sossion accused the Education ministry of filling the positions without advertising the vacancies.

"The Ministry of Education must advertise for the positions of county directors of education because the vacancies were never advertised and therefore we have the wrong people in office across the country. The process must be repeated and the recruitment done competitively," he said.

Sossion said though the law firm that had handled the retirement benefits' case for teachers in 1997 had done a commendable job, the tutors must be paid their dues by the director of pensions and not through the company. He said 7,500 teachers are to be promoted.