{"id":2128,"date":"2020-02-07T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2020-02-07T14:38:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:38:57","slug":"psc-commissioner-mumelo-how-moi-made-me-a-school-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/psc-commissioner-mumelo-how-moi-made-me-a-school-principal","title":{"rendered":"PSC Commissioner Mumelo: How Moi made me a School Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A member of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), Lonah Mumelo\u00a0(pictured)<\/strong>, is a familiar name in Kenya\u2019s education sector.<\/p>\n

Unknown to many, it was former President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi who plucked her from obscurity – this and her excellent credentials garnered over the years.Sometime back in the 1990s, Mumelo was teaching at Namawanga Girls Secondary School in today\u2019s Bungoma County. She was in job group M, which made her a junior headteacher.<\/p>\n

At that time, the most senior school administrator was in Job Group P, under the title \u2018Principal,\u2019 which was a highly coveted position.At about the same time, a delegation of leaders from her Tachoni community was on its way to visit the President at his Kabarak home.Unknown to them, Moi had already inquired who was on the list of his visitors. By then, the Tachoni had not produced a single school principal, and the former president noticed this.<\/p>\n

When the delegation floated her name, Moi immediately ordered her promoted to the principal. She did not even know of her promotion until she was called by the Teachers Service Commission to pick her promotion letter.\u00a0\u201cI was not part of the delegation, but they mentioned my name and he (Moi) promoted me there and then,\u201d recounts Dr Mumelo.<\/p>\n

Long before that, Mumelo remembers Moi visiting her school, Lugulu Girls. She was in Form Four and the school captain. She was the soloist, as the students serenaded the president. Because of her performance, Moi left a bag of goodies for the school.\u201cMzee loved music and he was very humorous. I was a soloist and I remember he joined in the dancing and was very happy,\u201d she recounts.<\/p>\n

Following her promotion, Mumelo would encounter the president again after she was transferred to Moi Girls Nangili, one of Moi\u2019s cherished education projects.According to Mumelo, every time the president was on the Eldoret\u2013Kitale route, he would stop by Moi Girls Nangili, where he would be entertained with song and dance, and leave behind a bag of goodies for the girls.When she was transferred to Busiada Girls, Moi again met Mumelo\u2019s students during a visit to Busia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had gone out to meet him and as usual we entertained him with song and dance. He then asked: \u201cWhat do you want me to give you?\u2019 I answered: \u2018We want a school bus,\u2019\u201d she recounts.\u201cIf I give you a bus here, the public will make a lot of noise,\u201d replied Moi. He then gave the school some Sh200,000, which the school used to buy its first television set.<\/p>\n

Mumelo would later become chair of the Kenya Secondary School Heads Association. During her tenure, teacher promotions were streamlined further.\u201cIt was during Moi\u2019s reign that job groups were created at the Teachers Service Commission so that a classroom teacher could ascend the ladder up to Job Group R without necessarily being in the administration,\u201d she recounts. The rest is history, as Mumelo went on to rise through the ranks to become a household name in education and administration circles. Today, she sits in the PSC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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