A photo of First Community Bank Chief Executive Officer Mr Nathif Jama,
now Garissa governor, during the launch of the bank in Kenya at Hilton
hotel in Nairobi on June 11, 2008. Garissa Governor Nathif Jama has
stuck by his remarks that head teachers who continued to post poor
results in schools they have managed for more than four years would be
sacked. PHOTO | FILE
Garissa Governor Nathif Jama has stuck
by his remarks that head teachers who continued to post poor results in
schools they have managed for more than four years would be sacked.
Mr Jama said he would not apologise to school heads for the statement he made last week in a joint briefing with a TSC official.
Instead,
the school administrators should apologise to him for boycotting a
meeting with education stake holders to discuss how to enhance education
after the county’s poor results in the 2013 KCPE.
Garissa was ranked last, with Mandera County. Each obtained a mean score of 183 marks.
Out of the county’s 7,507 candidates examined, only 1,306 managed more than 250 marks.
Mr
Jama spoke after some primary school headteachers in the county
gathered outside Garissa Hotel, where the meeting was taking place, but
refused to get in.
The school heads said the governor’s remarks were reckless and uncalled for, and sought an apology from him.
“We
have decided to snub this meeting because of the remarks we have seen
in the papers,” said Knut Ijara branch secretary Salah Mohamud Hassan.
“We
don’t fall under the county government, we are telling him to keep off
teachers affairs. We will not attend until he apologises to teachers,”
he added.
He argued that the county government did not have any authority to sack or demote teachers.
But Mr Jama said that teachers must brace changes in the next five years, whether they like it or not.
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