No study leave for Kenyan teachers

Teachers will not be allowed to proceed for study leave.

Education Assistant minister Ayiecho Olweny said the shortage of teachers currently standing at 66- thousand had made it impossible for the ministry to still grant teachers leave to further their studies.

Olweny said unless intern teachers are recruited to cap the shortage, the country's education system was slowly grinding to a halt.

Olweny was responding to a question by Butula MP Alfred Odhiambo.

The government has proposed hiring of intern teachers to bridge the shortage of teachers in the country, a move opposed by the Kenya National Union of Teachers which maintains only the Teachers Service Commission has the mandate to hire teachers.

Meanwhile the government has commissioned two series of number plate issuance in Mombasa to mitigate a vehicle registration crisis in Mombasa.

Transport Assistant minister Haroun Mwau said KRA should foot the cost accrued from delays in issuance of number plates at the Port of Mombasa.

Mwau said KRA was a tax collection agency and number plates should bear the coat of arms and not the corporation's logo. He said the government was exploring ways of contracting a company to make the plates away from the prison where they are currently being made by inmates.