Professor Zero Jacob Kaimenyi: Away with him!

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Ever since this Jacob Kaimenyi moved to settle an industrial/labour dispute with the Teachers by sacking the unionised 240,000 of them, and attaching the salaries of 200,000, everybody will recognise his relationhip with sector had broken down beyond repair.

Then in his hatred for Sossion --whom we have caught him referring to in very unflattering terms, he was egging on the police minister to arrest the union leadership when KNUT advised teachers not to report to the NFD until further notice. (This was after the bus massacre and I do not remember whether it was Kimaiyo or Lenku who declared the area safe. ---With Garissa campus now officially closed, we know who the fools in denial are in this episode)

Now our clueless professor wants to be in charge of the daily running of all schools in Kenya. We devolve to have less ''hay on our forks'' so to speak, and here is this horse wanting all the world's hay in his yard. A zero rate.

It is a national consensus ---must be better Maasais out there than the Uhuruto headhunters keep coming up with! Yawa!
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Withdraw illegal rules on school principals

In Summary

Teachers’ unions and the Constitutional Implementation Commission have roundly rejected the proposals.
Indeed, the essence of anchoring the TSC in the Constitution was to insulate it from extraneous interference.
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By EDITORIAL

Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi has opened a new battlefront with the unions and other interest groups following the publishing of new rules that give him powers to appoint and sack school principals and have a direct role in the management of the institutions.
After the enactment of the Education Act 2013, the Cabinet Secretary was required to publish additional rules to operationalise the law.

This was to be done through consultation with stakeholders, a process that has not gone well due to difference of opinion over various provisos.

In particular, the provision that seeks to bring headteachers under the control of the minister was contested because it breached the Constitution and other related statutes.
Employment and deployment of teachers is the role of the Teachers Service Commission.
Subsequently, the TSC Act 2013 spells out the details of teacher management and administration.
The functions of the CS are articulated in the Education Act and the framers were careful to demarcate the boundaries to eliminate any potential conflict.

Teachers’ unions and the Constitutional Implementation Commission have roundly rejected the proposals.
Indeed, the essence of anchoring the TSC in the Constitution was to insulate it from extraneous interference.

Educational institutions have been destroyed purely by intrusive and meddlesome politicians, bureaucrats, and religious groups.
Education is beset with myriad challenges, among them declining quality, poor infrastructure, and inadequate funding.

Therefore, it is puerile for Prof Kaimenyi to publish unconstitutional rules and create unnecessary fights when all energies should be spent on redeeming the education sector.

The new rules are illegal and unacceptable, hence they must be revoke

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[jakaswanga]

And here is the national consensus I was hinting at.

Ngilu, Kaimenyi Top List Of Ministers Kenyans Want Out

BY FELIX OLICK | April 13, 2015

MORE Kenyans want Lands CS Charity Ngilu sacked than any other minister
In a poll conducted for the Star by Ipsos, 19 percent of respondents, unprompted, named Ngilu as a minister they most wanted to be sacked by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The next most unpopular minister was Education CS Jacob Kaimenyi who 12 percent said they wanted to be sacked completely.

Then came Labour CS Kazungu Kambi on 9 percent; Agriculture CS Felix Koskei on 7 percent; Transport CS Michael Kamau on 6 percent; Interior CS Joseph Nkaissery on 5 percent; Defence CS Rachelle Omamo on 4 percent; and Energy CS Davis Chirchir on 4 percent.

Another 18 percent of respondents named 'Other' CSs who they thought should be sacked while 31 percent said no-one should be sacked. A surprising 26 percent said they did not know who the CSs were.
When the 'Don't Knows' were excluded the number of Kenyans who wanted Ngilu sacked jumped to 26 percent; Kaimenyi 16 percent; and Kambi 12 percent.
Cord supporters in general were keener to have ministers sacked but the difference was most pronounced in the case of Ngilu were 28 percent of Cord supporters wanted her to be sacked completely compared to 15 percent of Jubilee supporters.
The survey of 1,964 respondents had a 3.2 percent margin of error.

FOR THE RECORD

OUR original story '43% want Uhuru to sack Ngilu' on Monday, April 13 misrepresented an Ipsos poll commissioner by the Star. The correct figure should have been 19 percent of Kenyans want Uhuru to sack Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu. The poll requested respondents to spontaneously name CSs they thought should be dismissed.

The error occurred when the reporter added together the 15 percent of Jubilee supporters and the 28 percent of Cord supporters who wanted Ngilu sacked, making an incorrect total of 43 percent. Similarly, and for the same reason, only 9 percent wanted Education CS Jacob Kaimenyi sacked compared to 28 percent as stated by the Star; 12 percent for Labour PS Kazungu Kambi to be sacked compared to 20 percent in the Star; 4 percent for Defence PS Rachel Omamo compared to 7 percent in the Star; and 18 percent who want 'others' CSs sacked compared to 7 percent in the Star. We apologize to Ipsos for our incorrect interpretation of their data


- See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/ngilu-kaimenyi-top-list-ministers-kenyans-want-out#sthash.F24eo6XC.dpuf

But with Lenku just sacked even if raplaced by the same, do we want the Ole's storming their former watering hole, Nairobi, yelling they are being finished!? Nah!

The professor is not corrupt! merely incompetent. Jubilee and Kenya is full of both corrupt and incompetent administrators! So why pick on a poor Maasai!? (asks someone)

wont that be pure marginalisation! and sacking two Maasais in half a year, would that not be pure hatred!

And Jubilee just recently lost Kajiado central! Now, Kaimenyi can sleep easy! this government has greater problems!

[kamalet]

A simple reading of the Basic Education Act of 2013 will perhaps help inform where the CS is coming from. He did not create these regulations out of the blue..but with the permission of the Act in question.

People may not agree with the regulations (and I actually do not see why) but I think it is unfair to the blame the CS for them.

Most importantly on the issue of headmasters, there is no truth that they are now under the command of the CS since they do have a role as Secretaries to a school board of management as required by the Act whilst the rest of the board is appointed by the CS. The CS then appoints the school head as the accounting officer as is required by the Act - and this in the spirit of accountability makes the headteacher responsible for financial fidelity with all the consequences of the job's responsibility.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Now Teachers Service Commission rejects Kaimenyi rules on hiring of principals

Earlier in the day, Prof Kaimenyi had said that all players in education had been involved in developing the regulations aimed at streamlining the sector and there would be no turning back.
The new rules require school heads be under direct control of the Education Cabinet secretary.
BILLIONS OF SHILLINGS
Prof Kaimenyi said school heads receive billions of shillings from the government and must, therefore, be accountable for the money.
''The teachers have the authority to incur expenditure and given that they are under TSC, which is an independent commission, we must have a way to ensure they account for the resources that we allocate to schools,'' he said.

that is a professor talking, right? –-apparently the billions given to school heads have been pocket money which the heads, hitherto, needed to be accountable for!?
Serious!
And bringing the heads directly under the control of the minister, reducing the TSC to a bystander, will install this accountability!?

That there is corruption and financial mismanagement –-misappropriation by school heads I don't think is in dispute. But neither is it in dispute, that the ministry of education itself at the ministerial headquarters, is equally challenged in accountability.
The solution to corruption –-anywhere in Kenya, is not the concentration of powers in a Nairobi office run by a political appointee. Politicians are like toilet under use, they are soon flushed down the gutter. An independent body like the TSC, whose commissioners are vetted from a different angle, and are insiders in the education business, is a better overseer of accountability, financial or otherwise. It is better it is strengthened by its own forensic audit unit, specialising in putting the headmasters (if these remain the Chief Financial Officers of the schools they administratively run) to the much needed accountability.

As it is, Kaimenyi is merely engaged in a power grab, out to use headmasterships as patronage posts.

However, the CS, Prof Jacob Kaimenyi, said the rules were here to stay and criticised a teachers’ union that on Monday gave him seven days to reverse his order.
Prof Kaimenyi said he would not be held hostage by unions.

Well, within the teaching profession, anecdotes abound at how Kenyatta snr. tried to reign in Ambrose Adongo, the veteran KNUT unionist.


He was the longest serving secretary general of any trade union in Kenya. During the thirty years in which he headed the giant Kenya National Union of Teachers, he perfected the art of defending teachers’ rights through the threat of or actual staging of national strikes. In the process, he enabled the KNUT to exert an enormous influence on government education policies, especially during the rule of Kenya’s second President Daniel arap Moi.

Teachers are very aware of the institutional hostility to their Union. Even the GCG of Kibaki and Raila tried its part in divide and rule, to conquer the fighting spirit of the teachers.

Uhuru Kenyatta's government threatened to CONFISCATE the KNUT building in Nairobi where the Union is headquartered, during the last dispute.
Sossion was petitioned from every branch across the country to put the question directly to William Ruto, in the mother tongue if necessary to avoid any misunderstanding: ''William Ruto: are you and Uhuru Kenyatta, organised in Jubilee, out to STEAL the KNUT building!? And the plot of land. Bought and built by the sweat of millions of toiling teachers, monthly deducted over time in good faith.?''

Haha! By hindsight! Ruto went instead to steal Lang'ata Primary. You sure can not teargass all the Kenyan teachers, living and retired who contributed to the KNUT building, into submission.

KNUT has survived all these decades because it does not go partisan. It defends the straight interest of teachers to the best of the abilities of the leaders. And that has included defending education itself.
Kaimenyi of course is defending something too. Only it is neither the interest of national education nor stakeholders in the enterprise.

NB: Rumours have it was Kazungu Kambi, but some say it was in concert with the Jacob Kaimenyi: the salary slips of KNUT leaders were leaked to the press, in an effort to create alarm and discord –-as poorly paid teachers saw hefty earnings of their union leaders.

So one of the prevalent agendas of this government, just like the previous ones, is to NEUTRALISE the teachers unions. Actually, KNUT overshadows COTU. In every positive fashion.

However, Mr Gabriel Lengoiboni, the TSC secretary, differed with the Cabinet secretary, saying the regulations contradicted the Constitution and laws that set up the commission.
He said the Constitution had given all the teacher management functions exclusively to the TSC.
''These functions include the responsibility to assign teachers employed by the commission for service in any public school or institution; promote and transfer teachers; exercise disciplinary control of teachers and terminate their employment. Further, the TSC is mandated to advise the national government on matters relating to the teaching profession''.”

So the minister is at war with share- and stakeholders? Now, elections will soon be here while the wrangling continues.
Bye bye professor.

Earlier in the day, Prof Kaimenyi had said that all players in education had been involved in developing the regulations aimed at streamlining the sector and there would be no turning back.
The new rules require school heads be under direct control of the Education Cabinet secretary.

The unions and TSC disagree. –-That means the professor is a liar. No, not the Unions and the TSC, the professor and his Nairobi coterie of corruption.

“The Constitution clearly states that teachers are employees of the TSC and not the Ministry of Education,” said Mr Akello Misori, the Kuppet secretary-general.
And yesterday, Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) also joined Kuppet in criticising the directive. Knut Secretary-General Wilson Sossion said Prof Kaimenyi should be sacked over the “high-handed manner in which he has been running the ministry”.
In a statement, Mr Sossion said the CS’s decision to gazette the Basic Education Regulations and School Fees Guidelines was in total disregard of protests from key players in education.
“The decision by the Cabinet secretary to unilaterally gazette the Basic Education Regulations against advice and warning from the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) is a confirmation of the arrogance that this Cabinet secretary has exhibited,” said Mr Sossion.

Kaimenyi lied then, that all key players were consulted. Unless of course the UNIONS in the professors … opinion … do not qualify as KEY!

However, Prof Kaimenyi said the rules had the blessings of the AG, but said the CIC had no role in the matter.
Last week, CIC Chairman Charles Nyachae, in a letter to Knut which was copied to Prof Kaimenyi, warned that any purported publication of the proposed regulations before CIC, the office of the AG and the Kenya Law Reform Commission had finalised reviewing them would be a violation of the Constitution.

The blessings of the AG? The same one who failed to inform the President his directive overrunning the annulment of the recruitment of the 10,000 was His Excellency sh!tting on himself!?
And when parliament asked the AG, Githu Muigai, for a legal opinion whether the SGR tender award to China Roads and Bridges Construction company went according to Kenya's laws, how succinct was he? Remind me, O Joseph!

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Jakaswanga

Once again I strongly urge you to read the Basic Education Act as well as the Kaimenyi regulations! I think the confusion is media led in that the regulations are not only about headteachers being under Kaimenyi and him being able to sack them, it is actually a lot more. But the headteacher issue is a red herring to throw out the water and the baby in one go. My reading of the whole thing is that it is about management of educational institutions rather than teacher management. The whole thing is about the setting up of education management boards from a national to a devolved level.

My understanding (and correct me if I am wrong) is that TSC is the employment and discipline commission of teachers and has nothing to do with the management of education institutions including school boards and membership - these being policy areas. However heads of institutions being appointees of the TSC are also included in the management of the education institutions "as managers and not as teachers". They are secretaries to the school boards and Kaimenyi now appoints them to be accounting officers for purposes of Public Funds given to the institution. Being the appointing authority, Kaimenyi should be able to sack them as such, but their removal from public service would still remain with the TSC. This is not any different to PSs being accounting officers in ministries but their appointing authority as accounting officers is not the president (who can fire them as PSs) but the Treasury Cabinet Secretary who can fire them as accounting officers only!

I previously alluded to the headteacher firing as a red herring. Looking at the Kaimenyi regulations, there is a lot more that he protects parents with - such ensuring our kids do not have to be in school before 7a.m. or even removal of arbitrary fees previously levied which now schools cannot. I think this is what the noise makers are trying to kill - but why should I bother, I have no kids in school to worry about!

[jakaswanga]

Kamalet,
What is not said, is whether the current Monopoly of headships by professional teachers will be maintained in Kaimenyi rules. --pesonally I know once the teaching role is wholly dissociated from the management role, then any adminstrator from anywhere specialising in adolescent psychology will head schools.

This would be a key reform, even desirable, but when unilaterally done, its just the creation of more reward positions for cronies of a political establishment.

The educational sector needs reform. But it won't work top down, more so in a political climate poisoned with anti union administrators.
Nb. Continue worrying without ua kids in school, otherwise those whose kids died not in Garissa, why bother commiserate?

[jakaswanga]

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Jacob Kaimenyi bans classes before 7am

Learners are prohibited from arriving in school before 7.15am under new rules from the Education ministry.
The rules, enacted this year, also state that public and private schools will run from Monday to Friday.
Class hours will be from 8am to 3.30pm, while 3.30pm to 4.45pm will be time for co-curricular activities.
The regulations were published last week by Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi. They also make it an offence for a boarding school to send away an unaccompanied learner later than 9am.

BOARDING SCHOOLS

Boarding schools will run for 24 hours every day, but lessons will take place between 8am and 3.30pm.
From 3.30pm to 4.45pm co-curricular activities will take place, Monday to Friday, while 5pm to 7.30pm is time for “self-direct” activities, state the rules.
Students in boarding schools will start their prep at 7.30pm and finish at 9.30pm from Monday to Friday. They will rest until 6am.
The latest reporting time for learners in a boarding school will be 5pm.
The regulations also prescribe a government-approved curriculum for institutions of alternative, basic, adult and continuing education.
Learners above the age of 18 will only be admitted to an institution of alternative basic, adult and continuing education.

This is now our moron.
Two examples only.

TURKANA: Has anybody on this blog ever been to Turkana, so that he can testify to what the TEMPERATURES are at 11:00, sunny days?
You better have your pupils or students in class at 5 am. Between 12 pm and 5 pm, you are better off dozing under a tree if any. Or are they supplying full-service air conditioners?

2. HOMA BAY. Here we go for the tropical timetable. (what is that?) he he he! Better start your lessons at 6 am. 12 pm is end day. No point teaching a sleeping class at 2 pm.
DROP OFF: Some parent want to drop off their kids earliest, coz their got other places to go to, jobs for instance, and traffic to beat. So if some school madams can, to earn an extra pound, early care until the assemble bell goes at 8 am, all the better.
The dire economic rhythms which dictate parental behaviour, –-time scheduling, are not at the mercy of Mr. Kaimenyi, be he is a professor and a minister of Jubilee in a digitally dynamic regime. Ooyo, there are harsher, more commanding realities in life than a would-be educational despot may know in his small and sterile ivory tower.
Micro-management: can meat be served in boarding schools on Monday? Or is only githeri allowed?
Can madam teachers in girls schools wear skin-tight hots during morning assembly?
Is sex allowed between staff members? Between two students of the same sex?

Kaimenyi yawa! This way you will only be making rules for schools in Maasailand. Traffic rules need traffic cops. Otherwise ...

[kamalet]

Apr 16, 2015 20:53:02 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Jacob Kaimenyi bans classes before 7am

Learners are prohibited from arriving in school before 7.15am under new rules from the Education ministry.
The rules, enacted this year, also state that public and private schools will run from Monday to Friday.
Class hours will be from 8am to 3.30pm, while 3.30pm to 4.45pm will be time for co-curricular activities.
The regulations were published last week by Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi. They also make it an offence for a boarding school to send away an unaccompanied learner later than 9am.

BOARDING SCHOOLS

Boarding schools will run for 24 hours every day, but lessons will take place between 8am and 3.30pm.
From 3.30pm to 4.45pm co-curricular activities will take place, Monday to Friday, while 5pm to 7.30pm is time for “self-direct” activities, state the rules.
Students in boarding schools will start their prep at 7.30pm and finish at 9.30pm from Monday to Friday. They will rest until 6am.
The latest reporting time for learners in a boarding school will be 5pm.
The regulations also prescribe a government-approved curriculum for institutions of alternative, basic, adult and continuing education.
Learners above the age of 18 will only be admitted to an institution of alternative basic, adult and continuing education.

This is now our moron.
Two examples only.

TURKANA: Has anybody on this blog ever been to Turkana, so that he can testify to what the TEMPERATURES are at 11:00, sunny days?
You better have your pupils or students in class at 5 am. Between 12 pm and 5 pm, you are better off dozing under a tree if any. Or are they supplying full-service air conditioners?

2. HOMA BAY. Here we go for the tropical timetable. (what is that?) he he he! Better start your lessons at 6 am. 12 pm is end day. No point teaching a sleeping class at 2 pm.
DROP OFF: Some parent want to drop off their kids earliest, coz their got other places to go to, jobs for instance, and traffic to beat. So if some school madams can, to earn an extra pound, early care until the assemble bell goes at 8 am, all the better.
The dire economic rhythms which dictate parental behaviour, –-time scheduling, are not at the mercy of Mr. Kaimenyi, be he is a professor and a minister of Jubilee in a digitally dynamic regime. Ooyo, there are harsher, more commanding realities in life than a would-be educational despot may know in his small and sterile ivory tower.
Micro-management: can meat be served in boarding schools on Monday? Or is only githeri allowed?
Can madam teachers in girls schools wear skin-tight hots during morning assembly?
Is sex allowed between staff members? Between two students of the same sex?

Kaimenyi yawa! This way you will only be making rules for schools in Maasailand. Traffic rules need traffic cops. Otherwise ...

Jakaswanga

And then you pick two bad examples.....!

In Turkana, where they go to school, they certainly do not start their classes at 5a.m. that the regulations will disenfranchise them on account of the weather!But the problem of starting classes at 7 or before is a problem in the urban areas rather than the remote confines of Turkana. A relative who is a teacher prefers the early classes so that she can get away early to attend to her small biashara during the day when there are customers!

The rules relate to when classes start not when kids can be dropped at school - something I always complained about when the school bus came for my daughter at 6.15a.m. so as to drop her in school at 7a.m. with her doing nothing until parade at 8.15a.m! The poor child used to wake up at 5a.m. to make the school bus forcing me to finally send her to boarding school.

As for good old Maruge going to school with 7 year olds, I laud the CS for ensuring that children have a more grounded way of being taught without looking at their grandfather in class! Send the man to ngumbaru school.

But not all the regulations make sense like the one barring a child from going to primary school before the age of 6. I went to school at the age of 5 and I know there are very bright kids below 6 who are bright enough to join primary school!

[jakaswanga]

Eh kamalet,
What implications does a 24hrs economy have for hmm the working day, and specifically the School time table?

Stays the same? Spark industrialisation, said young Uhuru! Then here comes a professor instituting a feudal scheme!
Shame!
Remember industrial shift, relay twam Production organisation?

[kamalet]

Apr 17, 2015 11:33:48 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

Eh kamalet,
What implications does a 24hrs economy have for hmm the working day, and specifically the School time table?

Stays the same? Spark industrialisation, said young Uhuru! Then here comes a professor instituting a feudal scheme!
Shame!
Remember industrial shift, relay twam Production organisation?

Our kids literay have no play time....they need it and not the 24 hour economy you want that the cannot contribute to!!! If you are not a product of 8-4-4, you will appreciate why all the old guys are a lot better than the new lot - they had enough time to play and learn non-school stuff!

[jakaswanga]

Kamalet,
This is certainly a strong point: kids play time. But this is not what Kaimenyi is about. In our days PE, physical education, was not an extracurricular activity. I t was not slotted as Games Time, which was always afternoon, after classes. No, PE was Lesson, learning time.

NB. Schools can also just function as nannies! While parents go to work! And that time school is nanny, they can just play, baba name mama for instance #
Ah, 8-4-4? That's what our wrong-primed minister should abolish first!

[jakaswanga]

Jacob is beating the inevitable retreat. Cause of the U-turn is a confrontation with the TSC. They agreed the. Professor is a goat. Nothing to be done about that. But no need being a stupid goat. Enlightenment can help with that. So that is what the TSC did, educate the goat, in a process of upgrade to less foolish. Mea culpa bleat followed.

Hopefully Session shuts his mouth. His triumphalist told u so would undo the good Tsc work, precipitating a recidivism. Professors have their pride, especially Masai ones with domineering kalenjins! Kimya!

[jakaswanga]

Professor Zero Jacob looses his temper!

First the tabloids: for it is dangerous for a politician to have a head of gold on a feet of clay.
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In May, the CS found himself in a collision course with the elders after he was summoned by a different faction that replaced Mr Rutere and Mzee M’Ethinkia over controversial remarks he made about the council.
The faction, led by newly- elected chairman Linus Kathera and Secretary-general Josphat Murangiri, said Prof Kaimenyi’s statements had undermined them during Meru Women Representative Florence Kajuju’s thanksgiving ceremony that was attended by Deputy President William Ruto.
In his speech during the event, Prof Kaimenyi had lauded the council’s ousted leadership for leading the community.
After he failed to honour the summons, the group invoked a “curse” on the professor which was later withdrawn by the Ruteere and M’Ethinkia faction.

All that remains is half a curse now! And that is better than a whole curse!

Since he took office, Prof Kaimenyi has had a troubled tenure in one of the most powerful ministries in terms of reach and budget allocation which in the financial year that has just begun is Sh154.3 billion.
After his nomination into the position, the cabinet secretary faced obstacles after a man, through an affidavit, told the Parliamentary Committee on Appointments that he is corrupt, arrogant and insensitive.
Mr Anthony Kenneth Mwangi was citing a case involving alleged professional negligence investigated by the Preliminary Inquiry Committee (PIC) of the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board, which Prof Kaimenyi, a dentist, once chaired.

154 billion man. To organise the formal learning of Wanjiku's children. That is some responsibility, and given the hype under which education everywhere is shrouded under, it is a responsibility greater even than the president's. Even in corrupt Kenya, parents do take the education of their children seriously. Very seriously.
And Kaimenyi is limping too much. His dentist's head does not seem deployed at where it could be most competent. A bad waste of a good man.

Prof Kaimenyi confirmed that some of those opposing some clauses had been consulted.
Knut, however, said the four meetings the CS called had collapsed and claimed the Education ministry team far outnumbered other stakeholders.

It was a negotiation technique which could have worked with lesser opponents, but not with teachers organised for their interests. –-The ministry had proxies occupy seats at the table, keeping up appearances of diversity, carrying the day in majority, and laughed all the way to the drawing room to coin up policies heavily slanted in power toward the centre. Kaimenyi thumped himself in the chest, thinking he had pulled a fast one on the teachers, and he would now micro-manage the large sector, monopolising the decisions on the ksh. 153 billion.
Well, the centre versus the periphery is a historical power struggle with surprising meanders, and Kaimenyi spun out of control. Nothing to do with a curse from a Meru faction, just his inability to comprehend the national dynamic of devolution. This is the ministry playing the same game the Treasury and Waiguru are playing with governors and counties, using central power to belittle, harass, marginalise and attempt to control devolution.
It is a dangerous game of instability, making the surface volatile as the centre and the periphery square up at every point. The power struggle then negates even the would-be good. For power issues must always be sorted out first.

The current cabinet secretary for education, Jacob Kaimenyi, notoriously reported Wilson Sossion, KNUT sec-gen, to the police, leading to a confiscation of the Unionist's mobile phone to date. These are the two most determinant figures in the public education sector.The relationship is acrimonious, polluted and negative dynamics, and it will merely paralyse decisions as every comma is fought over. –--That is the real curse!

Now let us see how the duo faired before the Mpigs who had summoned them to explain stuff, on the BASIC EDUCATION ACT.

Kaimenyi in near fistfight with Sossion during talks

July 3, 2015 BY JAMES MBAKA

Education CS Jacob Kaimenyi and Knut secretary General Wilson Sossion nearly came to blows yesterday in Parliament over the contentious Basic Education Regulations.
The two had a heated exchange over who should be invited to attend a meeting convened by the National Assembly Committee on Delegated Legislation about the raft of regulations that will put the Basic Education Act into effect. Both the Teachers Service Commission, which employs teachers, and teachers' unions oppose the regulations.
Yesterday, only Knut and the TSC had been invited to discuss the regulations that Knut is opposed to. "The issue here is that the CS does not want to consult the central stakeholders.
Why did he choose to invite a section of us to this meeting?," Knut secretary general Wilson Sossion charged before Kaimenyi angrily shot up and demanded that the chairman protects him from personalised attacks.
"No! no! no! It can't happen, stop that. Mr Chairman I need to be protected. We need to be protected because these are personal attacks," Kaimenyi shouted, as he banged the table.
"This is not how we do business." Comittee chairman William Cheptumo came to Kaimenyi's defence, arguing that the CS was not responsible for inviting stakeholders to appear before the committee.

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THE CASE OF THE SEPTEMBER PAY FOR UNIONISED TEACHERS!

From Drama, it is developing into a thriller.

Kenya: Death and tears as TSC opts not to pay teachers By Saturday, October 17th

“Teachers have been left in a state of panic and confusion, visiting their banks and returning home with empty pockets every day. And no one is telling them if and when they will get their next pay and the reasons for the delay,” said the CORD statement.
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000179878/death-and-tears-as-tsc-opts-not-to-pay-teachers

and tragic tails surface: In Nyahururu a teacher reportedly committed suicide, having lost face at his recent poverty, induced by delayed salaries.

Patrick Irungu, 38, a teacher at Kirera Primary School, Kiriogo village, Nyandarua county, was found hanging in his house after he visited a bank in Nyahururu and was dismayed to find that September salary still had not been deposited in his bank account. According to Irungu’s father Gathenya, his son went back home upset after visiting the bank. "He looked very depressed and went to sleep early. The following morning, I tried calling him but he was not picking my calls and I got suspicious. I got to his house immediately only to find his body hanging," he said.
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000179840/teacher-commits-suicide-for-not-receiving-september-salary

The government is resolved not to pay september salaries. Rumour is, even if it wanted, it cannot, because during the cash-crunch, the money was borrowed and channelled elsewhere, and emergency funds to refund are not yet dropped in. The government is in a fix. But the fix has a bonus advantage. They can explain the refusal to pay teachers by toughness, a decisive measure to call the bluff of troublesome boys Akelo Misori and Wilson Sossion.

Show what you are worth or coil your tail and come in for crumbs, in defeat: Patrick Irungu's ghost needs a resolution.

That is the good thing about this crisis. It forces the Union leadership into a corner of no illusions. The blows are intended to kill. Surrender or fight.

I said we have a situation, walimu. The TSC going to courts to annul the ruling to pay september salaries, arguing the judge erred in law, is a side issue. –-The judges are on a go-slow, the case can take years! But bills, arrears and mama mbogas have to be paid.

But I still say a comprador union leadership putting up a ritual fight with a comprador political elite is a side-show. The fireworks are elsewhere. And in a crisis, some weak link will give, and the fire erupt there.

Kenya is juggling too many crisis in the air at the same time. With no priorities defined, we loose the plot are bound to be surprised.

First, a few more dead teachers to burry this weekend as Nairobi goes merry-go-round.

Kenyan teachers head back to court to push for September pay amid misery

The Standard on Saturday has established that lawyers for the two teachers unions will appear before Justice Nelson Abuodha next week for a mention of the case that would twist the salary payment standoff. Sources familiar with the new push said next week's move would be the game changer in the pay dispute even as Teachers Service Commission (TSC) moves to challenge the ruling. "Teachers have changed strategy. They deliberately declined to file for contempt proceedings because they know TSC would still take them in circles by making numerous applications," said a union official familiar with the development.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000179881/unions-head-back-to-court-to-push-for-september-pay-as-teachers-wallow-in-misery

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So he was finanlly sacked from his 'natural ministry'! what a pity he had it not in him.

And so time flew past Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi. An academic and former university executive, Jacob, if competent, could have been instrumental in the renovation, revamping and restructuring of the educational system and curriculum in Kenya. He, had he been worth anything, could have been the architect of a retooling, to respond and cope with the demands of the dreams of industrialisation. These dreams are widely shared by the uppity classes tired of the semi-agrarian quagmire we call the Kenyan economy, but more importantly, such a modernisation of education is a prerequisite to the good times --even the lazy-eyed president himself achieved a moment of lucidy to articulate this point in his innaugural address! For a whole sober professor to entirely miss it is to invite a goatherd's dangerous chuckle from Arap Moi: professor ya ghasia hii tulia pale ukule!



Professor Zero, following a trail well blazed by the likes of Saitoti, the Great Thief. Lots of Boko, plentiful HARAM in practice!

Makerere University is the only one ranked closest to UoN in the region after it emerged number 13 in Africa. UoN is also the only university from the East and Central Africa to make it to top 1,000 in the world with only seven universities from the continent making it to the list. Internationally, UoN is ranked at number 855. Africa’s top university, Cape Town of South Africa is ranked at number 328 in the world.

buzzkenya.com/2015-ranking-kenyan-universities-released/

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000151396/university-of-nairobi-ranked-best-university-in-kenya-and-position-7-in-africa

Instead the former dentist spent his time toying with his dik and battling the teachers Unions. Now he has been relegated to the past –--to be become a clerk for land cartels who grab children's playing fields.

On a footnote Kaimenyi has also left a long-running simmering problem at Nairobi university, Kenyan's pre-eminent college. There, the chancellor Peter Mbiti and his deputy, Peter Njoroge

University of Nairobi chiefs, Vice Chancellor Peter Mbithi and his deputy Bernard Njoroge, row on management

By Augustine Oduor. August 14th 2015

Wrangles in the top management of the University of Nairobi has emerged which could dent the premier institution. Correspondence between Vice Chancellor Peter Mbithi and his deputy Bernard Njoroge, who is in charge of Administration and Finance, reveals a strained working relationship. In his letter to University Council Chairperson Idle Farah, dated August 4, Prof Njoroge accused Prof Mbithi of meddling in his office administration affairs, adding that he will not be pushed to sycophancy. “I am personally seeking protection of the council to facilitate the discharge of the mandate of the office of deputy vice chancellor in charge of administration and finance (DVC A&F) in word and deed and not as the head of a small unit as the Vice Chancellor clearly intends,” reads the letter to Dr Farah.

He added, “Sycophancy has no place in the present constitutional dispensation or in my chequered career.” The letter was written just hours after Mbithi released new university expenditure guidelines to Njoroge. “I have given new guidelines with regard to approvals for expenditure. From now henceforth, all expenditure of Sh100,000 and above will be approved by the vice chancellor with the recommendation of DVC A&F,” said Mbithi.

He said the decision was taken “on account of the current very critical cash flow situation being experienced at the University”. “It has become necessary to institute additional controls on expenditure...expenditure below this threshold (Sh100,000) will continue as per the current practice, but with full consultation with and guidance from the DVC A&F,” reads the letter seen by The Standard. But in his protest letter to the council, Njoroge said he draws his mandate from the statutes. “Statute V (4) reads; the DVC A&F shall be the head of administration and finance division of the university whose functions include management of personnel matters, finance and assets,” he said. He believes Mbithi’s letter is “demeaning and disrespectful”. Njoroge said the latter has already moved some core functions to his office, adding that this is meant to undermine him.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000172799/university-of-nairobi-chiefs-vice-chancellor-peter-mbithi-and-his-deputy-bernard-njoroge-row-on-management

University of Nairobi Vice Chancellor Peter Mbithi, who has sacked three senior officers in an ongoing power struggle with his deputy Bernard Njoroge.

A union has called for an end to the wrangles that have rocked the university's top leadership.

Prof Mbithi and Prof Njoroge have been embroiled in a supremacy battle after the latter raised alarm over what he termed management funds.
In one of the letters, Prof Njoroge talks of Prof Mbithi’s approval of a travel allowances to the US totalling Sh1,117,600 for himself and the principal, College of Health Services Prof Isaac Kibwage, despite the trip being fully paid for by the host.
Prof Njoroge’s previous attempts to contain university expenditure earned him a rebuke letter from the council chairman Idle Farah.
Further, Prof Mbithi moved to clip Prof Njoroge’s powers by issuing new guidelines where all expenditure above Sh100,000 will now be approved by his office. The vice-chancellor also moved performance contracting to his office.

What a pity it is not about excellence in the academic field, but merely about allowances which, we know, are scamming schemes to loot Wanjiku! (like the sitting allowances of Mutunga and his fat-asz JSC scumbugs! –--New Tz man Magufuli has banned his fart-asz scumbugs from similar allowances, asking, aint that what one already gets paid to do, the job!!)

Tuesday, September 29, 2015
VC fires officers in power struggle

The University of Nairobi Vice Chancellor Peter Mbithi has sacked three senior officers in an ongoing power struggle
On Monday, Prof Mbithi fired an official in the finance department, the chief internal auditor and chief legal officer in what looks like the result of a power struggle between him and deputy vice chancellor, administration and finance, Bernard Njoroge.
Prof Mbithi said in a letter that the contracts of the three senior staff had been terminated with immediate effect.

Prof. Bernard N.K. Njoroge, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration and Finance

UoN is ranked 855 in the World. Hmm. If you are the classmaster what do your write for such a student in the end-term report card: can do better!? Work harder!? Pull up your socks!?

And on who should be sacked or suspended between Njoroge and Mbiti!?

But for Professors Mbiti and Isaac Kibwage who, saidly, awarded themselves travel allowances to the Million from a cash-crunched University for a trip to the USA which was already paid for by the hosts, I will say this: if this charge is true: you should be shot on sight like police do with Mpesa robbers. No two ways about it. shot dead. Point blanc. No mercy for thieving doctorates. Boko Haram!

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WHY WONT KAIMENYI GROW UP, YAWA!

Land summit just turned a forum for blame games
Tuesday November 15 2016


At this week’s State House Lands and Housing Summit, the question of Lang'ata Primary School land grabbing issue was raised. Lands Cabinet Secretary Prof Jacob Kaimenyi referred it to National Land Commission chairman Prof Muhammad Swazuri said the issue was resolved. Nairobi |County Governor Dr Evans Kidero said land records in his office do not reflect the school and the PS regretted the tear-gassing of pupils.
MORIS KOMEN, Eldoret

Before that, I was geared toward being nice to prof. Jacob Kaimenyi, the cabinet secretary for lands. I had reason to be hopeful, even if, going by his earlier performance in the department of education, fearing for the worst was a far more rational mindset. I mean, if one performs not best in his area of technical expertise, the chances he will excel elsewhere where he is a layman are pretty slim. Still, you want to be nice give a fella the benefit of doubt. This could be the opinion which ruled the minds of those who, instead of sacking the professor completely from the cabinet, transferred him to the lands docket. On the other hand, may be he was just the kind of dimwit they needed at this sensitive department. –-Remember the Ndung'u and TJRC reports lie gathering dust in the vaults there, feeding munchy rats and shy cockroaches!
But what did I know!?

The first act of state house was the summit on corruption. That is the one which went down in acrimony over two missing guests, the divas David Ndii and John Githong'o. We covered this b!tchy instalment of comedy at length elsewhere on Jukwaa. Spicy was also the performance of the less than excellent Uhuru Kenyatta when he ridiculed the Auditor General on the Eurobond trail.
It was a nothing doing summit, and it would be proved so when, barely a week later, Afya house became Mafya house in a scandal which roped in the first family itself. A detail is also that the lost money exceeds the amount the USA disburses annually to Kenya for health remedials –--AIDS blockers and the rest.
Now, if history repeats itself as farce, and the anti-corruption summit at state house was history, quick on its heels was farce on the way. Another summit on corruption at state house, this time LAND! –-land grabbing, title deeds corruption et al.

On title deeds, Mr Esipisu said Prof Kaimenyi will discuss double titling and fake titles and provide assurance on the validity of the important document.

I half held my breath when I heard this! –-Jacob Kaimenyi could just be what a not lost James Orengo could have been!
But no sooner had the professor opened his mouth on the introduction than reality set in. This was farce. Also in the sense of a repeat of James Orengo of the GCG.

State House to host land summit
Monday November 14 2016

By PATRICK LANG'AT

State House on Sunday promised an engaging summit on land, pledging answers on historical injustices as well as the thorny issue of how much land a person can own.
The summit will be held on Monday at State House, Nairobi, the seventh of a series of summits that the Jubilee administration says are to explain its achievements.

n Summary
Raila Odinga has asked the Jubilee administration to table, debate and adopt in Parliament the TJRC report that he said will address land injustices.
Land Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi will answer questions on land grabbing and irregular title deeds, as well as corruption in land control boards.
The summit will address cases of killings related to unscrupulous land-buying companies, including the infamous Kihiu Mwiri and Mbo-i-Kamiti groups that led to the mysterious deaths of some directors of the companies.
Mr Esipisu said Prof Kaimenyi will discuss double titling and fake titles and provide assurance on the validity of the important document.

As I go to press on Jukwaa now, there is not a sensible individual left believing anything serious will come of this.
The daily nation caught the gloom and sang the blues thus.

Problems in Lands need real solutions

Monday November 14 2016

In Summary

For example, Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero disclosed that the county had lost hundreds of acres to the Kenya Defence Forces and expressed helplessness in recovering them.
The point is that the real problems of land have not been tackled. Title deeds have been given at highly-publicised political rallies, but the question of inequality in land ownership, annexation of public land, and corruption in land transactions have not been addressed.
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The Lands Ministry was in the spotlight yesterday at the State House summit over corruption, land grabbing, and slow issuance of title deeds.
Top ministry officials put up a spirited fight to deny the ills, arguing that the current administration had issued more title deeds on pro rata basis than any other time since independence. However, grave issues came to the fore.

For example, Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero disclosed that the county had lost hundreds of acres to the Kenya Defence Forces and expressed helplessness in recovering them. Paradoxically, even land belonging to the Eastleigh Airbase has been grabbed.

The land question continues to dominate public discourse. Various reports have articulated grave cases of excision of public land and dispossession of thousands of helpless citizens.
The Ndung’u Report of 2004, for example, documented numerous cases of land injustices. Other reports such as those of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation and the Waki commissions highlighted the transgressions on land ownership and demonstrated their direct correlation with ethnic violence.
Although in principle the National Land Commission was intended to redress historical land injustices, not much has been achieved.

Moreover, there are inconsistencies in land management. For example, although the chairman of the National Land Commission, Dr Muhammad Swazuri, reported that the controversy over the Lang’ata Road Primary School land, which had been grabbed by powerful individuals, had been resolved, Dr Kidero says the records had not changed.
This means that the land is still under the name of a private individual who can seize it at any moment.
The point is that the real problems of land have not been tackled. Title deeds have been given at highly-publicised political rallies, but the question of inequality in land ownership, annexation of public land, and corruption in land transactions have not been addressed.
It is only strong political will and missionary conviction that can clean up the mess in lands, not public relations gimmicks.

How should the mind of a professor work?
He becomes seized of the problem. He takes thought. His mind deep, ruminant and penetrating, thorough and trained in systematic decon- and construction, s/he defines a solution template, and together with a crack-team, proposes a modus operandi.

For starters he could get the balls to dare Raila and take the Ndung'u report and TJRC to Parliament for debate while in his back pocket he hides 5 bills, proposals to sort the problem out, just to laugh at that Raila liutenant Orengo --that would be a very clever, professorial insult at the reputed bringer of devolution the flower of the second liberation!
But somehow I think the above is beyond the capabilities, mental or administrative abilities, bureaucratic or political wit of the professor Jacob Kaimenyi.
He is exactly the thing the Kartel ordered for the land office! a zero thing.

Two professors, Kaimenyi and Swazuri! Two dead reports, Ndung'u and TJRC! And I never heard of Waki, imagine!
Now, that is a tragedy. We will just have to let sleeping dogs lie, even if they are mighty professors!