MPs selling TSC appointment letters for Sh400,000 – Wetang’ula

National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula has alleged that some MPs accompanying him to State House receive Teachers Service Commission appointment letters from President William Ruto and later sell them to job seekers for up to Sh400,000.

Wetang’ula condemned the alleged practice, questioning how ordinary Kenyans, including low-income workers, could raise such amounts to secure teaching jobs for their relatives.

“If someone is struggling, you are a night nurse, as that mother said, and you ask her for Sh400,000 to give her child a teacher’s letter, where will she get that money? That is immoral and we cannot accept leadership like that,” the Speaker said.

Wetangula did not name the MPs allegedly involved or provide details of the recruitment exercise.

On August 21, Wetang’ula urged the Teachers Service Commission to prioritise rural schools when deploying teachers, saying staffing shortages continued to affect rural institutions despite the recruitment of thousands of teachers in recent years.

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Earlier in April, he raised similar concerns while speaking at St Francis Kolongolo Girls Secondary School in Kwanza Constituency, Trans Nzoia County. He said the country had recruited more than 100,000 teachers since President Ruto took office, with a further 20,000 expected to be hired, but argued that teacher shortages persisted because of uneven deployment.

The latest remarks bring the issue of access to teaching jobs into focus, with Wetang’ula questioning the alleged use of employment opportunities to demand money from job seekers.

His example of a night nurse was used to illustrate the financial burden that an alleged Sh400,000 payment would place on a person with a modest income seeking employment for a family member.

Wetang’ula did not indicate whether any formal complaint had been made over the alleged sale of the letters or whether investigations had been initiated.

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