TSC Transfers Teachers From Terror Prone Areas

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has embarked on the process of transferring teachers from insecure areas to safer ones within Wajir County following a recent terror attack in Garissa County which led to the death of three teachers.

The transfer of teachers from insecure areas comes at a time when teacher unions have expressed fear following the increase of Al-Shabaab attacks in northern Kenya.

On Monday, the 13th of January 2020 heavily armed militants ambushed residents of Kamuthey Garissa County and shot dead three male teachers while sparing three female teachers and a nurse in the attack.

The murder of the three male teachers came just a week after Al-Shabaab carried out an attack at Saretho Primary School where they shot dead four children and injured three other pupils and a security officer.

The two attacks by al-Shabaab have left teachers in the North-Eastern region afraid of falling into the same fate as their colleagues and are now calling upon the TSC to transfer them in the just-started process.

The demand to have the teachers transferred has come again after they made the same demands last year when the attacks began to increase but instead the government promised them to heighten security.

The promise by the government had initially calmed the teachers but the surge and return of the attacks have caught the teachers by surprise and are now unsettled.

Concern remains on what will be the fate of the children in the northeastern region and are they even safe if the government has foreseen the nature of insecurity and instead on ensuring security is transferring the teachers.

Teachers working along the Kenyan-Somalia border have already been given transfer letters to schools believed to be safe according to the Wajir County TSC Director Solomon Leseewa.

“All these teachers have already been issued with letters and have been posted to schools that are located in secure places within the county,” Leseewa said.

Leseewa, the TSC Director called on teachers who are stationed in insecure areas to visit the TSC offices in Wajir town for further directions.

“We can’t give conclusive data at the moment as we are still transferring them, but we will provide accurate data at a later date,” Leseewa said.

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