PAY TEACHERS WELL IF YOU WANT TO DELOCALISE THEM-TNC W/REP SUSAN NGUGI
Tharaka Nithi County Woman Representative Hon. Susan Ngugi Mwindu speaks during the burial ceremony of Peter Njagi Mugwika at Gatunga
By: Denis Mutua
Worth Noting:
- “It is very wrong to delocalize youthful teachers in their 40s forcing them to leave behind young families with no one to care for them. This later develops to family issues leading to break up of many marriages,’’ she said.
- Thus the legislator said if delocalization has to work, teachers have to be paid handsomely to enable them visit families at their convenient time without having to struggle, to keep their unions working.
- She expressed her commitment to ensuring that teachers’ welfare is looked into terming them as useful people in the society and whose interests should be catered for.
Tharaka Nithi Woman Representative Hon. Susan Ngugi Mwindu has faulted the delocalisation of teachers for being an headache to them over numerous challenges it is orchestrating.
Speaking at Gatunga during the burial of Tharaka education pioneer Mr peter Njagi Mugwika and who has been the director at Gatunga Junior Academy, Susan said since assuming office she has been receiving distress calls from teachers suffering in different places asking for assistance to get transfers back to the county, a clear indication of tribulations they are into.
She attributed the exercise to rising cases of family break ups for teachers in marriages when they are forced to work far apart from loved ones creating rifts between families.
“It is very wrong to delocalize youthful teachers in their 40s forcing them to leave behind young families with no one to care for them. This later develops to family issues leading to break up of many marriages,’’ she said.
Thus the legislator said if delocalization has to work, teachers have to be paid handsomely to enable them visit families at their convenient time without having to struggle, to keep their unions working.
She expressed her commitment to ensuring that teachers’ welfare is looked into terming them as useful people in the society and whose interests should be catered for.
“Teachers are with our kids almost for whole 9 months in a year.Thefore if we make them operate in depressing conditions they might not deliver their mandate. Delocalisation is of no help and thus there should be better plans to support teachers,’’ Susan added.
Away from the issue of teachers, Susan called on widows from the County to form groups so that it will be easy for her to help out those facing challenges in accessing pensions for their late husbands.
To ease the process of succession in the cases of deaths, the MP said that already the County registrar office for births and deaths has since relocated to Kathwana County headquarters and asked any widow facing issues in getting related services reach out to her for assistance.
The formally Marimanti Ward MCA who rose to the position of the County Woman Representative in the just concluded polls assured residents of her dedication to be always available for them for the purpose of service delivery as she pledged in her campaigns.
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