10 teachers facing termination

AT least 10 teachers in Hela will be terminated for forging the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) chairman’s signature on their resumption duty forms to be on payroll, says chairman Samson Wangihomie.
Wangihomie said that the officers had identified those teachers involved last week and they would be automatically terminated.
He said their reports would also be sent to the Hela police for fraud.
“As from now on any fraud matters, we are not going to wait but automatically terminate them as they are not fit to become a teacher,” he said.
Wangihomie was responding to The National’s query in regards to the teachers’ resumption (Rodss) to be digitalised to avoid the auto-suspension.
He said that teachers could not go online to resume because it was a decentralised function.
He said this was also to avoid fraud so Rodss must be submitted straight to TSC for signing in order to get them on pay.
Hela education director Ronny Angu, however, said that he did not have any data of the teachers forging the TSC chairman’s signature and, therefore, couldn’t confirm it.
Meanwhile, Wangihomie said that the TSC was responsible for the retired teachers as well as to sort out their necessary entailments upon submission of their files and reports.
“We retire them by working together with the provinces to calculate their entitlements,” he said.
“It comes to us with the file and we only approve the payments and then the respective provinces’ than have to pay these teachers.”
Wangihomie clarified that the last province where the teachers’ taught and retired was responsible to pay their entitlements.
He said that the main problem that had caused the delays was the mix up of teachers’ files.
He added that the files were not being transferred when the teachers were being moved to teach in another province which caused inconvenience for the TSC.