The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has been given till end of January to ensure it has transffered delocalized teachers home.
While appearing before MPs yesterday, TSC board chair Jamleck Muturi and head of legal Calvin Anyuor, were ordered to ensure the lawmakers decision on delocalization of teachers is implemented.
The Education Committee which is chaired by Tinderet MP Julius Melly gave the commission up to January 31 to ensure all teachers who had been delocalised have been transferred 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.
The move came after it emerged that about 14,733 teachers as of November last year had requested transfers from their current workstations following the abolishment of the policy on delocalisation of teachers.
“We do not want stories, just tell us when you are going to do this, please table a report here for us to see. This policy was abolished and we cannot go back to it because we know that some of you use it to punish teachers,” said Melly.
Last week, TSC Chief Executive Nancy Macharia told MPs that mapping out of the said teachers is ongoing to ensure that they are placed in the areas they have requested.
In November, Members of the National Assembly passed a motion calling for the abolishment of the policy which commenced in 2018.
Following the move, the lawmakers then directed the commission to initiate a comprehensive review of the teacher deployment policy with the involvement of teachers to make the policy consistent with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and UNESCO laws and practices on teacher management and deployment.
According to TSC Code of Regulations for teachers the Appointment, Selection and Assignment Committee (ASAC) chaired by the County Director shall consider and approve Intra – County transfer requests.
On the other hand Inter – County transfers where delocalized teachers belong shall be approved at the Headquarters by the TSC Appointment Board.
A teacher shall be transferred subject to availability of vacancy and a suitable replacement. The Commission is yet to issue a new policy guiding transfer and deployment of teachers after the current one was quashed by legislatures.
According to the current policy a delocalized teacher in North Eastern region must have completed 3 years while for other regions its 5 years.
The Members of National Assembly unanimously passed a resolution to put an end to delocalization.
The House asked TSC to amend the policy that will see newly recruited teachers being posted within their zones and those delocalized taken back home.
The motion fronted by Lurambi MP Titus Khamala was passed in Parliament on November 3.
This means if in future if TSC is to transfer a teacher then they should be moved to a different school within the zone they work in.
Am kindly pleading with our members of parliament to give Dr Nancy Macharia time to reorganize the transfer of the delocalised teachers,it can’t be done overnight, but subject to availability of space eg if most of the hts in a particular area are outsiders and not willing to be rerouted back to their home counties,where will the tsc get a chance to bring. back home sons and daughters?? Lt’s Avery tricky situation.
I av come to realise that some teachers and especially those from some regions that are usually drought stricken do not want to be localised.I hail from Kisii and I feel I should be localised even now.Those who were delocalized to Kisii wamekwamilia.Ninashangaa.
Thanks our mps for standing with us,you have really done a commendable job,let say without being bias that as teachers,we are also parents and our children needs to see us every day,take for example now am working in eldoret and my wife has been posted to nyeri and our home is KERICHO,where do the children go?,,where the father is or where the mother is?,,to that extend,we are denying them the right to live with both parents where they can get love,care,parental involvement in every aspect just.Being a teacher,I have always encouraged the parents to be close to their children and for that reason,I must be an example.The other main reason is closeness to the spouse,basically we marry solely for companionship,and to nurture marriage institution because a family is a very important unit of every society.so then it must be safeguarded from different vices that may spoil it.If you spoil a family,you spoil a generation and the nation at large.So let’s be realistic.Thou I have a lot of points to comment,let me just conclude by saying that teachers are very intrumental in the community hence they must be given an opportunity to exercise their role fully.Actually delocalization has done more harm than good.It must be abolished with immediate effect,Thank you
Whoever came up with rhe delicalization ide in the first place is a jerk, unmitigated dickhead who should not living among civilised beings, period.
I personally support the motion with lots of enthusiasm, that come 1st Feb, 2023 all shall have been done for me..I just want to go back to my roots following many hiccups that cause family breakage..thank me later!
Submitted a request to be transferred back to where my family is only to be rudely told that I am bonded to the five year rule. Being an absentee partner to my soulmate has done so much harm to my marriage. Mimi nataka usaidizi. Being posted to Turkana county leaving my family in Nairobi is messing up and tearing my family apart.
Mp wataweza Nancy kweli?
Teachers who have already requested for transfer should not be subjected replacement quackmire.This will compromise the process and will be thorn in the flesh of the said teacher (s). The approval of the transfers should be done within the holiday.
Why would TSC find it difficult to reroute teachers by giving the argument of no vacancies. The way TSC got vacancies for delocalization is upto its personnel to look for vacancies for return. This was a punitive, shirt sighted and emotional policy. Many families suffered the negative effects of this policy.
The commission didn’t consult the teachers before delocalizing them. Tsc has all the records which should be used to make the transfer reversals. Kila mtu arudishwe mahali alitoka
I fail to understand when Tsc says they can only effect transfer prior to the availability of vacancy .During delocalization you get a vacancy and during transfer request you hesitate and subject people to policies they were not involved in making.Thats being unfair and it’s against the law.let every one work where they are comfortable and even level of delivery will be scaled up.just imagine for example I have spending alot of time travelling home and back to school.That is ideally wasting of the little amount of money we earn.So we are held economically hostage Thanks mps for responding to our prayers.We are extremely happy because we shall be with my family,community,my church,my friends and everybody in my village,