Around 50 teachers have so far resigned from the Teacher Service Commission (TSC) to contest the National Elections next year.
TSC Commissioner Policy, Samson Wangihomie, said the teacher’s applications to resign have been approved.
However, the resignations have been approved on the back of an agreement struck between the TSC and the resigning teachers.
“We approved their resignation for the purposes of elections with conditions like if they lose the elections, they’ve got to return within two months after the writs are returned,” said Wangihomie
“Now if they don’t return after two months we will terminate them.”
He said the TSC was still receiving mail of teachers intending to contest the election, due to the slow mailing system being used around the country.
However the cut off date for teachers to resign lapsed on October 6th. And any letter dated after the cut off date will not be approved.
Wangihomie also said teachers who have resigned must not engage other teachers during the counting period as electoral officials.
“They can engage teachers to as polling officials and not Assistant Returning Officers because Assistant Returning Officers 8are on Electoral Commission payroll.
“Any teachers that you find is engaged as an Assistant Returning Officer, we will have them eventually suspended from the payroll,” said Wanghomie.