TSC rejects suspension of Starehe principal
A picture of one of Starehe Boys Centre blocks taken on March 3, 2014 after KCSE results for the year 2013 was announced. PHOTO/PHOEBE OKALL
The Teachers Service Commission has rejected the suspension of Starehe Boys Centre and School's principal Paul Mugo over poor KCSE examination results.
TSC said the school’s managing committee has no mandate “whatsoever under any law to send a head teacher or any other teacher employed by the Commission on compulsory leave for whatever reasons.”
In a statement on Thursday, TSC chief executive Gabriel Lengoiboni said the school could not, therefore, take unilateral decisions without involving stakeholders such as the employer and Ministry of Education Science and Technology.
“Any action on an employee of the Teachers Service Commission can only be taken within the framework of Article 237(2) of the Constitution, the Teachers Service Commission Act, 2012, the Code of Regulation for Teachers and the Basic Education Act, 2013,” he said.
TSC urged Mr Mugo to continue performing his duties as the school principal as the Managing Committee decision to deploy another teacher was “equally misguided and, consequently, a nullity.”
On Wednesday, the school's director Mr Matthew Kithyaka announced that the principal had been sent on forced leave for one month along with two school administrators for an unspecified time, without divulging the reasons for the decision.
The school, which has emerged top in the KCSE examination nationally several times in the past, dropped from position 12 in the 2012 results to 17 last year with a mean grade of 74.757, which is a B+. (VIDEO: Starehe drops further down giants’ ladder)
