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| Treasury CS John Mbadi |
The National Treasury has announced that the gradual employment of Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers will begin in January 2025.
According to National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi, the Budget Policy Statement 2024 has allocations for employing teachers.
“There was no money to immediately employ JSS teachers, but there is money to employ them from January; we have the budget. It is there,” said Mbadi.
He added that the government has also released Ksh. 3.4 billion for constructing classrooms with more support from the World Bank.
"We are going to have classes," he said, adding that money to construct classrooms will equally be sourced from the NGCDF at a time when cash remains scarce.
In an earlier exclusive interview with Citizen TV on the phone, Mbadi had said that there was no money to hire the 20,000 JSS teachers on permanent and pensionable terms.
He later revised his statement saying he had been misinformed about the budgetary status.
“Those who are saying there is money in the budget for JSS teachers are right. I am wrong and there is nothing with saying I am wrong. The communication was wrong from my side,” he explained.
Mbadi clarified that while there would be no funds to pay the teachers from July to December, there is Ksh. 22 billion in the budget for their conversion to permanent and pensionable terms starting January 2025.
He said that TSC has been informed about these changes.
This move comes in the wake of complaints by KNUT and KUPPET, which issued a strike notice commencing August 26, 2024, claiming that pertinent issues affecting teachers' welfare were still unresolved.
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos noted that his ministry has a shortage of funds and, therefore, cannot respond to all the demands resulting from within the education sector.
He added that his government had no funds for the full implementation of Phase 2 of the 2021-2025 CBA.
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