Teachers forced to sleep inside school over delayed three month salary
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BOM teachers of Marereni Secondary School spending nights inside classroom to demand three month salary arrears
BOM teachers of Marereni Secondary School spending nights inside classroom to demand three month salary arrears.
In protest of salary payment delays, all 17 of the teachers hired by the Board of Management (BoM) at Marereni Secondary School in Kilifi County are sleeping at the school.
Mwasambu Pole, a teacher, stated that they have been sleeping at the school since Friday in order to seek the arrears on their three-month salary.
He said that the delays also had an impact on non-teaching staff.
The teachers decided to camp at the school after Principal Mr Amin Mohamed Karanja told them that the institution had no money to pay them.
Speaking to the media on Saturday morning, the teachers claimed that their income delays had left them unable to cover their families’ expenses for housing rent, health insurance, and other requirements.
”The school principal issued a notice indicating that we will be paid in January. We, as BoM teachers, have been forced to teach with no pay for several months,” Pole lamented.
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He said they spent the night in the school compound after they got a written communication from the school principal indicating that they would receive their payment next year.
“We ask the government to intervene in the matter immediately because it appears the parents are unable to pay us due to the prevailing economic hardship in the country,” he said.
Ms Annet Munga, another teacher, said she has resorted to play a cat-and-mouse game with her landlord because of rent arrears. “I’m on the verge of being thrown out of the house. We become beggars,” said
“We came on Friday when the school was closing and hoped we would be paid, only to be slapped with a memo telling us to wait until next year.
“How we will survive during this long holiday without pay?” said Munga, adding that some of their colleagues have taken up menial jobs to survive.
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