Kitui County Senator Enoch Kiio Wambua-CBS, recently made an impromptu visit to Kitui Teachers Training College [KTTC] in a bid to get permanent solutions over the college’s poor management
According to information in our desk is that more than one hundred staffs have been working without payments from the management for several months despite the institution receiving funding from the Ministry of Education
While at the institution where he met Deputy Principal Kitui Teachers Training College Mr. Manase, Wambua assured to engage with Senate Standing Committee on Education to dig deeper in to the matter and come up with a permanent solution for the institution.
“I want to get answers to the prolonged outcry from the staff, public and other stakeholders about the institution’s poor management,” Senator Wambua who is the Deputy Minority Leader in the Senate said while tabling the petition at the Senate
There are credible reports that some of the workers have stayed for ten months without a penny, and their push from the management to get something has turned an exercise in futility
Wambua, also the committee on education to establish the reasons for the delayed pending bills owed to suppliers and contractors at the institution
“……committee should establish the cause of delays in payments of salaries to staff of Kitui Teachers Training College for the last ten months, total amount owed by the institution in terms of salary arrears and plans in place, if any, to ensure the teachers are paid without any further delays,” Part of the petition read.
Additionally, Senator Wambua who has been admired by the electorates following his standing ovation and performance, wants the committee to state reasons for delay in release of payment to suppliers and contractors since 2018
He is further seeking the timelines of the said payments and the reasons for the low enrolment of students at the institution currently standing at only 50 against a capacity of 1200 students
The petition was committed to the committee on education to interrogate the matter and table findings within the next fourteen days
Petitioner[Wambua] wants committee to indicate the steps the Ministry of Education is intending to take to stop an imminent closure of the institution