You have failed us, MP tells Lengoiboni

Wajir South MP Abdullahi Diriye Wednesday called for the sacking of TSC boss Gabriel Lengoiboni (above) for allegedly failing to take measures to change the region’s education fortunes for the better. PHOTO | LABAN WALLOGA  

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• Wajir South MP Abdullahi Diriye Wednesday called for the sacking of TSC boss Gabriel Lengoiboni for allegedly failing to take measures to change the region’s education fortunes for the better.
• Mr Diriye, who has been vocal on educational matters in the region, said the situation has persisted for years without the commission doing anything about it.

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An MP Wednesday accused the Teachers Service Commission of failing to address perennial poor academic performance in North Eastern Kenya.

Wajir South MP Abdullahi Diriye Wednesday called for the sacking of TSC boss Gabriel Lengoiboni for allegedly failing to take measures to change the region’s education fortunes for the better.

“Counties from North Eastern region have perennially been posting poor results and TSC has failed to avert this misfortune,” said Mr Diriye.

“It is time the TSC boss is sacked because he has failed in his work,” he said at a news conference in Nairobi.

Mandera and Garissa counties, both in the region, tied at the bottom in the 2013 KCPE results released last week.

They were ranked at position 46 out of the 47 counties nationally, with a mean score of 183 marks each.

Wajir County from the same region was among the poor performers, beating only four counties.

Mr Diriye, who has been vocal on educational matters in the region, said the situation has persisted for years without the commission doing anything about it.

“There is no way the same counties would be ranking last year in year out,” he said.

The commission should post more teachers and send additional quality assurance officers to the region, he said.

“Unless these two measures are taken, TSC will continue to fail as far as uplifting the education standards of the region is concerned,” he said.

According to Mr Diriye, posting more teachers to the region is one of the key interventions the commission ought to have made with most schools in North Eastern region currently suffering from an acute shortage of teachers.