The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will continue to approve and transfer delocalized teachers back to regions closer to their homes.
Though TSC has a policy to approve transfer requests of teachers and those delocalized at the end of the year and academic term this will now change as Regional Directors have been ordered to keep approving transfer requests for those who applied.
TSC is rushing to comply to orders issued by the Members of Parliament (MPs) requiring the Commission to re-routing all delocalized teachers back to their home areas.
For two weeks now many transfer letters have been trickling into TSC County Directors offices for the delocalized teachers to pick.
The Commission has suspended the delocalization and transfer policy which made it difficult for delocalized teachers to be transferred.
However TSC has only been approving regional transfers for delocalized teachers while those seeking to have transfers from one region to another like Coast region to Eastern region are still having difficulties.
Last month, TSC announced a mass transfer affecting 14,613 teachers during the commission’s delocalization policy.
TSC Secretary Dr Nancy Macharia said, 12,019 teachers will be placed in the inter-county transfers which will be effected by the Regional Director of Education.
Further, the 2,594 teachers will be placed in the inter-regional transfers which will be effected by the Commission headquarters. Out of these, 226 will affect high school principals.
The recent newly recruited teachers on permanent and pensionable terms as well as those on internship have also been posted, starting last week, to areas closer to their homes except for those in secondary schools which mostly depends with subject combinations.
They comprise of 1,000 primary school teachers on permanent and pensionable terms and 4,000 others on internship.
Others are 21,550 posts for teacher interns in junior secondary schools and 9,000 posts on permanent and pensionable terms of service for secondary school teachers to be posted to junior secondary schools.
On 25th January the National Assembly Speaker, Moses Wetang’ula, added a punch to TSC after he ruled that the delocalization policy is illegal as there was no parliamentary approval to the policy.
This forced TSC to start transferring teachers even those who have served for less than five years or lacking a replacement.
Delocalized teachers in some counties however have raised complaints that the TSC officials are delaying and blocking their transfers despite complying to the Commission requirements.
They include Nyandarua, Narok, Vihiga, Samburu, Taita Taveta, Siaya, Kakamega, Bungoma, Nandi, Laikipia, Kisii, Homa Bay, Bomet and Trans Nzoia.
TSC was given till 31st January by Parliament to ensure all delocalized teachers who applied for transfers have been moved unconditionally.
While appearing before MPs, TSC board chair Jamleck Muturi and head of legal affairs Calvin Anyuor, were ordered to ensure the lawmakers decision on delocalization of teachers is implemented.
The Education Committee chaired by Tinderet MP Julius Melly gave the commission up to end of January to ensure all teachers who had been delocalized have been transferred back to their areas.
Melly told the commission not to belabour the matter but to ensure it tables a report on how it plans to implement the said move after the National Assembly made a decision on the said policy.
Its now clear that delocalized teachers who applied for transfers will ultimately be moved to areas they wanted.
However caution was issued against delocalized teachers who transferred without being officially released by the Head of Institution (HOI), Sub County Director (SCD) and the County Director (CD).
Some delocalized teachers have complained that they are being posted to different sub counties and not the ones they initially applied to.
Apart from delocalized teachers TSC has also affected a number of transfers for Principals of National, Extra County and Sub-County schools across the country who have been moved in the mass transfer.
Delocalized teachers at Kilifi to Makueni county we are affected and we request it done please
These officials should take us back to our homes otherwise content delivery is affected because I am psychologically prepared to leave Nyandarua on daily basis!!!!!
I didn’t receive my transfer letter from Machakos to Makueni even after being acknowledged
I’m yet to receive my letter after applying for the transfer in 2021
Have not received my letter, really waiting 😭😭😭
Have not received my letter, really waiting 😭😭😭
Am requesting staffing officers to put teachers to schools near their homes so that teachers are not delacalised in their home counties
Working at Meru county and would like to go back to Embu county my home county and had applied for transfer and did not get transfers what wrong with Meru county because many teachers who were given transfer were from Kitui kindly asking .Thank you
Y can’t the parliament order teachers to just move to their home counties without waiting for transfer letters,or compel tsc to place the letters in their portal so that trs can download them? The exercise is now compromised !!!
There are teachers who are climatically affect end and suffering in silence. Like me ,my home county is Tharakanithi and my current station is Nandi Tinderet.l have not received my transfer letter am still waiting. Until when should we continue waiting, when our co-collegues who are just next counties are getting and leaving us??
Am currently working at Nyamira delocalised from Kisii county for 6 yrs now. I applied for transfer was acknowledged but have not received the letter.What is really going on.
Mine is a swap from Taita taveta to kilifi I have been waiting for the call to date
From kilifi to kitui please
We have become the laughing stock especially by the newly recruited teachers who are coming from their homes😭😭
One said that tulikuja kunyakua jobs zao🤧.
I’m in the mood of going back home every day!!!
Let’s TSC do something how can u transfer someone within one year and leave teachers who have stayed for many years.this is total discrimination.
I have applied for a transfer home since 2020 to date yet transfer status reads “you have a transfer request in progress” what could be the problem?
Have waited for my letter from Bungoma to Nairobi in vain. Am joining spouse who is a teacher too. I
I’m tired, bored psychologically set to leave.
Working In Isiolo. Want to go back to Embu. Am tired of the situation . Am done with Isiolo n it’s time to go home.
Have not received mine too….anyone wishing to swap from Murang’a to Kajiado County
It’s been a long wait
Health matters should be considered
Have not received my Letter am so depressed unable to deliver i applied my transfer 2021 from kitui to kajiado its acknowledged but with suitable replacement
Working in Nakuru county but I have not received my letter to kiambu ,,,,legislatures help the delocalized back to their suitable areas we are tortured
Have not yet recieved my transfer letter from kitui to kajiado, had applied 2021 its acknoweldged with suitable replacement
Why transfers from Makueni to Meru are delayed? Some of us have served for more than five years and we are yet to receive our transfer letters. It’s unfair to transfer those who have served for short period leaving those who have served for long in the same county.
Why transfers from Makueni to Meru are delayed? Some of us have served for more than five years and we are yet to receive our transfer letters. It’s unfair to transfer those who have served for short period leaving those who have served for long in the same county.
Currently in makueni county none of us from here back to Embu county has received the transfer letters, is this thing really real most of Embu teachers in other counties are crying for justice something has to be done send us back home.
Applied a transfer from Nakuru to Murang’a upto now there is no response
TSC is so repagnant on transfers, Let them wire teachers’ copies to their e mails they heap in the files as a notification to go and pick it! TSC is simply known as torture suffering creamination My colleagues are circumulucating in good parkage topmost rank county director as I remain c3 languishing with peanuts! Promotion of admnistratioñ is coughing something and who knows who! T
Abstain interviewing admnistratioñ cadre why interview and civil servants are never done so ! TSC has lost competitive graduates this education is Crippled, as such up to date grade seven have no books and teachers!! Am in a school in msa known as kwabulo ,is three years old since inagurated but has no books, no lockers, no sufficient teachers and lack the field as number grows ! Does it mean there no order to mind it! I have copied notes till tortured! A clss of 130 pupils!
Transfer letters from vihiga county to Uasin Gishu county I have not received mine
We need to be given a reason for the delay of our transfer letters from vihiga county to Uasin Gishu county am actually psychologically in Uasin Gishu yet still in Vihiga teaching.cant concentrate.
am working in Nyandarua and want To go back to Kiambu
In Nakuru county I applied for my transfer to transnzoia county in April 2022 but I have not got my transfer
Teachers delocalized to Nyamira and had applied for transfers to Kisii county esp.Nyamira North are harassed by Hoi and others conned money in the name of effecting transfers.To this end treat the matter as emergency.No morale to teach, recently employed teachers rerouted home while those who have overstayed in stations,subcounties, counties left behind.Why? Which criteria is being used to effect and approve transfers?
I requested to be moved from Kiambu to Laikipia on domestic violence February last year and have not received my letter. I am living in fear as am threatened to death and attached the required evidence. How on earth do I deliver to the kids if am not safe and comfortable at my work place? I have visited headquarters severally but nothing has happened. Kindly be considerate.
My transfer from Kirinyaga to Nairobi has not been effected to date.To make the matters worse it dissapeared from the portal,what should i do now?
Still waiting for my transfer from Nakuru to Tharaka Nithi very disturbed.Early up i need to go back home.
Am yet to receive my transfer letter to get out of Turkana county.
I need to stay with my wife, and the health matters. But our transfer request is yet to be effected
I applied for transfer from siaya to kakamega yet to receive my letter.I want that letter like yesterday. There’s no moral for teaching at all .Tsc should act fast on this matter for betterment of teachers and learners
Vihiga County have refused to release transfer letters completely. Members of Parliament you are the only saviour remaining Please visit vihiga County hamisi subcounty which is most corrupt and save vulnerable suffering teachers.
Haven’t received my transfer letter from Bomet to Embu
My packing bags are ready
I’m also wondering and shocked because I haven’t got letter and it’s medical issue.God have mercy on me.
My wife have applying for more than 5yrs now and not being absorbed, ama Kuna pesa inalipwa tujue… So sad.
We will also make waiting a continues process
From narok to migori sureally
I applied for transfer on medical groundsin 2021,2022,wrote two appeals but TSC has never acted.Please consider medical issues.l am mentally affected and it interferes with the performance.
Esther.O. Sakwa
Am tiered and frustrated, please allow me go back home. Working like a prisoner. From kiambu to Bungoma
Am tiered and frustrated, please allow me go back home. Working like a prisoner in my own contry. From kiambu to Bungoma
Nyamira county to riftvalley still unkown pending
Applied for transfer from Meru to Embu and nothing is happening.. anxiety is killing us.. children have not even reported back to school wondering where to take them.please have mercy on Us
How about those of us who were posted in other regions for example in rift valley and want to go back home e.g nyanza region in Nyamira county?l visited the office last week the only feedback l got was that yours is pending simply because it’s regional
Some delocalized teachers in Nyeri who have not worked even for one year have received their transfers while some of us who have worked for over four years have not. This the apex of injustice and unfairness. TSC be impartial please.
I was transferred to laikipia from Turkana.I want to settle at my Nairobi home
Allow my wife back home kkmg from Vihiga Sabatia Mwilitsa primary
Mine was a swap.my partnerwas transferred from Embu county(Mbeere south) to kitui but mine bounced.Help needed.hence the Regional director told me to be patient .Still waiting.
We want us transfered immediately!up to know !!! Where are our letters??????
My transfer request is still pending, from kericho to Nyamira.am dying alone in other people’s county
I am teaching in nyandarua and I want to go back to kiambu .
TSC are used to torturing teachers they are now happy when they hear you are psychological disturbed they think there is anything constructive taking place in class, we are just there.