Africa-Press – Tanzania. THE Deputy Minister of State in the President’s Office (Regional Administration and Local Government), David Silinde, has directed teachers countrywide to abide by and adhere to their employment code of conducts.
He also advised the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to avoid any acts of injustice on teachers who have been lodging their complaints to the commission.
Mr Silinde gave the directives over the weekend when closing a two-day strategic meeting of the TSC executive secretaries as he insisted on the need of exercising professionalism among teachers.
He said TSC must come up with a modality in which they will monitor and keep a close eye to ensure that teachers observe ethics and code of conduct before deploying disciplinary measures.
The Deputy Minister also directed TSC’s District Secretaries to avoid asking bribes from teachers who have been requesting for promotions insisting that whoever would be identified to have engaged in such illegal acts, stern legal actions would be instituted immediately against them.
At the meeting, Mr Silinde underscored the need for the commission to avoid acts of injustices, humiliation of teachers, corruption, and all acts that were against the rules of law and those violating guidelines and rules guiding the profession.
“I have noted with concern that some of you have been asking for bribes from teachers so that they could get promoted, however, the sixth phase government under President Samia Suluhu Hassan will not tolerate such evil acts and we shall not hesitate to immediately take legal actions against whoever be found to have engaged in such acts,” he insisted.
In another development, the deputy Minister asked all TCS’s District Secretaries from all 139 districts who attended the meeting to ensure that 304bn/- which had been channeled to the education sector for implementing projects for school infrastructures were spent on the desired purposes, warning those who would try to squander the money.
According to Mr Silinde, out of 1.3tril/- that the government had received from IMF to implement the programme for development as well as mitigating the negative effects of Covid-19 pandemic, the President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government had been allocated about 536bn/- out of which 304bn/- was disbursed to implement projects on infrastructure in the education sector.
Speaking at the meeting, TSC Executive Secretary said the money provided by the Head of State would help to increase service delivery in schools as the country continues struggling to mitigate effects of the covid-19 pandemic.
According to her, several topics would be presented at a two-day annual meeting which ends today and that after fruitful discussions, deliberations which aims at improving service delivery at TSC would be made.
According to the chairperson of the commission, Prof Willy Komba the TSC in collaboration with other stakeholders was preparing a written proposal for a comprehensive training programme for teachers countrywide.
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