KNEC 2021 Examiners To Receive Remaining Dues Any Time Before July
It has been confirmed that teachers who participated in marking the 2021 KCPE and KCSE exams will be paid before end of June.
An officer from KNEC offices revealed to our team that the council has decided to pay the examiners before July since they have pressure to clear their accounts before receiving the budget for the 2022/ 2023 financial year.
It was an initial plan to settle the dues of all KNEC contracted professionals by end month, and so far, KNEC has made the initial steps towards meeting its goal by ensuring that all invigilators, supervisors, centre managers, security personnel and drivers who participated in the 2021 KCPE and KCSE are paid. The mentioned contracted professionals received their full dues yesterday.
So far, only examiners are waiting to be sorted by KNEC. Already, KCSE examiners had received a down payment of between ksh 10,000 and ksh. 20,0000 depending on the paper. What remained will be paid in full, unlike last year, where it was paid in installments.
“We have paid all the supervisors, centre managers, invigilators, security officers and drivers all their dues. KNEC cannot go anywhere with your money since it will need you again before conducting another exam. We are having examiners next, and we will pay them their full dues any time before end month. It can even be next week, but I am not sure if we will get all the required signatures to effect those payments. I do not want to commit myself but the examiners should be ready to get their money any time from now,” confirmed a senior KNEC official who spoke to our team.
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During the 2021 KCPE and KCSE exams, the Teachers Service Commission TSC, assigned 242,406 teachers national exam supervision and marking duties.
KCPE examiners only marked Insha and Composition papers. The marking of multiple-choice questions was done by the modern Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) which electronically scored the papers.
The delayed payments have caused frustrations and protests from teachers who supervised and invigilated the exams.
Teachers have been questioning why Knec is delaying their payments yet the KCPE and KCSE results were released long ago.
KNEC had in February warned that it will only make payment to those who officially register their details on the Cp2 platform.
However, Treasury CAS Eric Wafukho informed the examiners that there should be no panic since everything will be taken care of.
According to Wafukho, the government rolled out financing of the whole examination activities including paying teachers, drivers and security personnel through the treasury and they expect that the process will be smooth.
He maintains however that all logistics must be followed prior to the payment.
Earlier speculations revealed that the government coffers are dry, hindering it from meeting the obligation of paying teachers who manned the exams.
Bure sana knec,, frustrating teachers who sacrificed their time to mark and manned under pressure
It is the teachers who will always be paid LAST.
Trust me, KNEC, MOE & TSC officials who participated in the 2021 KCSE were paid even before the results were released.
When it comes to the teachers, mara verification of signatures, mara log-in / log-out on CP2, mara we are waiting for release of 2022/2023 budget from the treasury.
Teachers (examiners ) need to allowed to form a union to voice their concerns.
It’s just saddening that however much teachers sacrifice their effort is never fully appreciated some of us haven’t been paid our Invigilation dues, ask knec about it and you are told about the mismatched names in the finance department it’s July 12 the and has been done. I can’t imagine how stressfully the job was since I was posted to a school several kilometers from my place of work that I had to take residence. I wouldn’t myself in this situation again next time .