The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) West Pokot Branch Secretary Martin Sembelo has asked the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to reverse delocalization of teachers immediately.
He said over 200 teachers from West Pokot had been affected, with the transfers taking them to neighbouring Uasin Gishu and Trans-Nzoia counties.
Pointing out that the National Assembly had given TSC till the end of January to rescind the controversial transfers, he wondered why the teacher employer had ignored the directive.
Sembelo said that by last November, over 14,700 teachers had requested to be taken back home, questioning why it should take the service such long a time to implement a simple directive from the highest law-making organ in the country.
On the issue of junior secondary school teachers, Sembelo asked the TSC to empathize with the teachers who were obliged to travel to far flung areas and sustain themselves in the new stations without salary.
“Where do you expect such teachers to get money for their upkeep?” he posed.
He said Junior Secondary School (JSS) should be adequately staffed, disclosing that some of them had only one teacher.
By Correspondent
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