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The CS had authoritatively stated that the government would not employ JSS teachers, citing a lack of money.

National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has recanted his earlier declaration that the government is insolvent to employ Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers. 

The CS had previously authoritatively stated that the government did not have an allocation for the educators' permanent and pensionable employment and that adjustments would not be made due to the constraints occasioned by the withdrawal of the Finance Bill 2024.

"We don't have resources for recruiting JSS teachers on permanent, that I would be lying. We also don't have resources for the additional 20,000," he said.

However, in his new sentiments, the CS stated there was money for the foregoing cause.

He said the allocation for the teachers' employment beginning January 2025 was already set aside.

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"It is right that there are monies to convert the JSS teachers. I should have been clearer; I was wrong on my end. There is Sh 22 billion available," he said.

This came a day after the National Assembly's Budget and Appropriations Committee chairperson, Ndindi Nyoro, said the government had allocated monies to facilitate the permanent employment of JSS teachers.

Budget committee chairperson Ndindi Nyoro.

Speaking in Nandi county on Saturday, August 24, the Kiharu MP, who had accompanied President William Ruto on a working tour, revealed the government had set aside funds despite the fate that caught the Finance Bill 2024.

"I want to assure our JSS interns that I am the chairman of the budget committee in the National Assembly; we budgeted Sh 18.7 billion to confirm our JSS interns into permanent and pensionable terms. All that money is available, so when they hear things, they should know that as their brothers and sisters, we care about them," said Nyoro.

The lawmaker observed that it would be unreasonable for the educators to continue earning Sh 17,000 salary despite having been interning for over two years.

Nyoro said the money for the JSS teachers is different from the one the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) promised basic education teachers in their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

He said the interns' employment would be actualised upon TSC completing the process of onboarding them into the government directory.

"The president and the government have seen it irrational for the teachers to continue earning Sh 17,000. I want to confirm that the money for all the 46,000 JSS interns is intact. We want TSC to hurry in giving them employment letters," said Nyoro.