{"id":17230,"date":"2025-03-05T14:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17230"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:02:55","slug":"kuppet-demands-transfer-of-headteacher-accused-of-assault-calls-for-leadership-overhaul-in-jss-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17230","title":{"rendered":"KUPPET Demands Transfer of Headteacher Accused of Assault, Calls for Leadership Overhaul in JSS Schools."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-3-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17231\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Kenya Union of Post-Primary Teachers (KUPPET)<\/strong> has demanded the <strong>immediate transfer<\/strong> of the <strong>Nyanchoka Primary and JSS School headteacher<\/strong>, who allegedly <strong>assaulted a teacher last week<\/strong> and remains at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a <strong>Wednesday statement<\/strong>, <strong>KUPPET Acting Secretary General Moses Nthurima<\/strong> accused the headteacher of <strong>interfering with investigations<\/strong> into the assault. The victim, <strong>Vincent Onyancha<\/strong>, is still <strong>recovering from his injuries<\/strong>, and the union insists he cannot return to the school while the headteacher remains in office, citing <strong>psychological distress and a hostile work environment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond this case, KUPPET has urged the <strong>Ministry of Education<\/strong> to <strong>review the deployment of teachers to Junior Secondary Schools (JSS)<\/strong>, calling for a <strong>complete leadership overhaul<\/strong>. According to <strong>Mr. Nthurima<\/strong>, <strong>senior secondary school teachers<\/strong> should take charge of <strong>JSS curriculum, staffing, and resource management<\/strong>, arguing that <strong>primary school headteachers lack the capacity to handle roles previously managed by principals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Teachers (KUPPET) has demanded the immediate transfer of the Nyanchoka Primary and JSS School headteacher, who allegedly assaulted a teacher last week and remains at large. In a Wednesday statement, KUPPET Acting Secretary General Moses Nthurima accused the headteacher of interfering with investigations into the assault. The victim, Vincent Onyancha, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-3-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17232,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17230\/revisions\/17232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}