By correspondent
Students from schools across Wajir County have staged a classroom walkout on Thursday morning protesting about government inaction on solving the current teaching crisis that has affected many institutions.
The protest comes hot on the heal of a blanket transfer of hundreds of non-local teachers from Wajir by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) following the killing of two of its teachers at Qarsa, a remote settlement east of Wajir town.
Hundreds of students from more than 200 primary and 40 secondary schools took to the streets of the town holding placards and chanting songs “Macharia must go’ demanding their right to education.
“TSC is perpetrating injustice, denying us the universal right to basic education. That is why we are out, we have walked out of classes due to lack of teachers” a student told The Plu. “We are calling on the Cabinet Secretary for education to intervene and help bring back our teachers”
On Wednesday, Wajir County Government press service reported that the boards of management of all public schools in the County resolved to close learning institutions due to lack of teachers.
“Board of managements decided to close all schools tomorrow Wednesday. They will also call for mass demonstrations in the region to protest the TSC move” it said on Facebook
Learning has been paralyzed for weeks in several secondary and primary institutions occasioning an unwanted educational crisis that is seemingly getting out of hands for the locals.
The latest protest by students to push for the return of teachers to the county is the last struggle as efforts to persuade TSC to rescind its decisions have previously failed.
