JSS Interns Rush To Renew Contracts

Despite staging demos for weeks demanding for confirmation to Permanent and Pensionable terms, JSS interns have been seen in masses rushing for contract renewals. Moments after TSC ordered the tutors to visit the Subcounty offices for contract renewal, huge numbers were seen in banks across the country acquiring the Personal Accident Cover (PAC) which is necessary for contract renewal.

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The 26k interns have been for agitating for confirmation from their employer after the contract expiry but TSC revealed that the contracts will renewed. This rubbed the interns the wrong way. They took to social media and demonstrations to deliver their disappointment. Counties have witnessed demos mostly led by KUPPET members . The issue has also dominated newsrooms conversations with plight of the jss teachers being highlighted in major news rooms.

The interns have being thinking their efforts will sway the TSC but they were wrong at least going by the recent development.

As the end of the contracts come close, the commission ordered the interns in selected counties to renew their contracts. This was seen as an attempt to scuttle the #confirmjssinterns# movement by isolating the willing and the unwilling with the unwilling facing a bleak prospects.

Indeed the tact employed has been successful as jss interns were seen in droves rushing to Subcounty offices with PAC to renew the contracts. It's now game over for the JSS 'moguls' as they are popularly known.

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