Parliament has given three government agencies a month to prepare a report on the criteria used to allocate hardship allowances.
The National Assembly Committee on Implementation queried the distribution of teachers, accusing the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) of "handpicking" teachers for promotion and deployment to areas where they will earn more.
Kajiado East MP Kakuta Maimai claimed some teachers from urban areas are posted to rural schools with hardship allowances and granted senior positions at the expense of the local ones. "I find that headteachers posted in these rural schools with hardship allowances are often teachers who are handpicked.
So, I'm having a big backlash from teachers from the local community, saying that they are not being given to head schools in the rural areas where there's hardship allowances," he said.
