BOM Salaries: Good News as State Reaffirms the Release of 43, 000 BoM Teachers’ Salaries
43,000 teachers employed by school Boards of Management (BoM) will be smiling all the way to the bank starting tomorrow.
This is good news for the
teachers who have been forced to exercise the patience of a cobra following the government’s numerous promises to start paying their outstanding
salaries.
The long-awaited confirmation was made by Education Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Zack Kinuthia yesterday who said the government will disburse Sh1.72 billion in lump sum to cover the teachers’ salary arrears for the last four months.
Each teacher will get
Sh40,000. He also confirmed that the funds are already being channeled to the teachers’ respective bank accounts.
“This is a promise from the office of the CAS through consultation that the money is safely on transit to their bank accounts. It
will happen whether it is today, tomorrow or Friday,” said Kinuthia, when he inspected
Kandara Technical Vocational Centre in
Murang’a county.
He said the delay to pay the BoM teachers was occasioned by
submission of inaccurate data by school heads, which could
have seen the government lose up to Sh2.5 billion.
He said head teachers had submitted a list of 106,000 teachers, which means the
government could have ended up paying at least 63,000 more
teachers unprocedurally.
“The ministry has been trying to pay BoM teachers as per the recommendation by the
President but this has
not happened due to
technical hitches,” said
Kinuthia
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