Employment and Labour Relations Court has this morning ordered the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to immediately transfer a teacher Geoffrey Lelon out of North Eastern region.
This backdrop comes after a case was filed in 2023 by Kenya Teachers in Hardship and Arid Areas Welfare Association (KETHAWA) challenging decision by TSC to repost 122 teachers back to North Eastern after they run away due to insecurity.
According reports, Lelon a young teacher was one of the teachers who witnessed his colleague being butchered in Mandera and had to run away for his safety even losing his crucial personal documents like KNEC certificates.
The court heard that he became traumatized from the ordeal he witnessed and has been pleading with TSC to transfer him out of that region after narrowly escaping death.
In reacting to this TSC interdicted him and after disciplinary process for dessertion they warned him in writing and reposted him back to North Eastern region.
Lelon has been without salary for over 2 years and has been doing casual labour duties to earn a living in his rural Kericho home.
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It is further reported that some other teachers in the matter have lost hope and even depressed due to long duration the case has taken.
KETHAWA through its lawyers Ndung’u Wangenye and Theoddas Okundi, has been putting a resilient fight in court to have the teachers served right.
Justice Byram Ongoya personally listened to Lelon ordeal together with submissions filed in court by lawyers and ordered he be immediately transferred outside North Eastern to report to a new station immediately schools open next month.
By Our Reporter
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