TSC Sack 29 Teachers Over Intimate Relationships with Students.

TSC struck off 29 names of teachers with cases of sexual relations with students, on Tuesday from the teachers’ register

Increased teenage pregnancies during the 2018 national examinations raised concerns from the public and stakeholder.

United Nations Population Fund(UNPF) gave a detailed report which revealed that at least 378,397 Kenyan girls aged between 10-19 got pregnant between June and July 2017, a period where they were supposed to be in school.

“in exercise of the powers conferred section 30 (1) of the TSC act chapter 212 of the laws of Kenya, the commission wishes to notify the public that the persons whose names are specified in the schedule herein below have been removed from the register of the teachers,” read an excerpt of the notice.

The appalling trend is giving worry to parents who have bestowed a lot of trust in teachers.

TSC CEO, Nancy Macharia, attributed the numerous pregnancies as well as forced drop out to teacher-student sexual relationships.

Once a teacher’ name is struck off the register, he or she practically ceases to be in the profession thereon as they are classified as unemployable under the teachers’ act except by the direction of the commission.

In November 2018, a teacher accused of defiling a student at Moi girls’ high school, Kamusinga, Bungoma county, was arrested after months on the run.

The suspect allegedly committed the offence in June and is said to have defiled a 14-year-old form two student after summoning her to his office.

Such cases have been on the rise across the country thus justifying the move to deregister any suspected sex offenders.

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