RE: REQUEST FOR RESPONSE TO A STATEMENT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REVERSAL OF DELOCALIZATION OF TEACHERS POLICY IN EMBU COUNTY
The Senate Standing Committee on Education is established under standing order 228(3) of the Senate Standing Orders and is mandated to consider all matters related to education and training.
Standing order 53(1) of the Senate Standing Orders provides that a Senator may request for a Statement from a Committee relating to any matter under the mandate of the
Committee that is of county-wide, inter-county, national, regional or international concern.
Pursuant to this provision, at the sitting of the Senate held on Thursday, 16th February, 2023, Sen. Alexander Munyi Mundigi, MP, requested for a Statement from the Standing Committee on Education regarding the reversal of delocalization of teachers’ policy in Embu County by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
In the Statement, the Senator requested the Committee to –
- State the number of requests received by the TSC from teachers wishing to transfer to schools in their home counties following the reversal of delocalization of teachers’ policy by Government, stating why it has taken inordinately long to comply with the Government directive;
- Inform the Senate how many requests by teachers to be transferred to their home counties have been granted, giving a breakdown per county and further state when the pending requests will be processed;
- State reasons why the TSC is authorizing the transfer of teachers from other counties to Embu County, while not approving similar requests by teachers whose home county is Embu even after the said teachers requested the TSC to be transferred back to their respective sub-counties in Embu; and
- Spell out measures in place to address challenges faced by the TSC in implementing the reversal of delocalization of teachers’ policy by Government.
The purpose of this letter is to invite you to a meeting of the Committee to be held on Wednesday, 8th March, 2023 at 9.30 am to deliberate on the aforementioned issues. The meeting will be held in Committee Room 5, Main Parliament Buildings.
We request that you submit written responses to the issues, on or before Monday, 6th March at 4:00 p.m. by email, on the address clerk.senate@parliament.go.ke and copy to educationcommittee.senate@parliament.go.ke
Attached is a copy of the Statement and Hansard for the Plenary Session of the Senate held on Thursday, 16th February, 2023 at 2.30 p.m. for your information.
Mr. Humphrey Ringera, Research Officer (Cell phone: +254 722 985 682, email:humphrey.ringera@parliament.go.ke is the Clerk to the Committee and is responsible for all arrangements relating to this matter.
Yours faithfully,
J.M. NYENGENYE, CBS
CLERK OF THE SENATE
Nyandarua county……I’m in a school where we are overstaffed but being released to go back to my home county is a nightmare😭😭.
I am just wondering the evil that I committed by being posted to Nyandarua county and I had applied for the job in my home county.
I developed medical complications due to the extreme cold in the area and even after attaching a medical letter from a public hospital doctor from a level four hospital,no transfer was given😭😭.
I desperately want a transfer back to my home county please.
Every time I wake up and find myself still in Nyandarua county…. I just feel sick,demotivated,harassed and lack morale to do my noble task😭😭.
I am feeling like going to camp at the deputy president’s office until my cry of being rerouted back home is heard😭.
They have enough teachers which evident in the school that I am teaching but taking me back home is a myth.
Please TSC officials concerned… I just want a transfer and my peace of mind will be restored.
Kindly……. someone to come and rescue delocalised teachers.
Broken marriages,distant children,diseases,stress related conditions……. name them.
As if this is not enough,tsc has remained cruel and it’s not willing to reroute them.
To add salt to the injury,the recently recruited teachers were posted to their home counties.
I don’t have energy remaining to teach!!!!
Delocalization had killed check the teachers suied in kerugoya court by his wife after they have parted ways.
The husband is a teacher.
The wife used to be a taksidriver.
Oooh no abolish delocalization.
It’s better the Coronavirus 10x than Delocalization
I was left with a 2 year and 5 years kids to take care of in Nairobi while my wife was thrown to the dessert of Turkana. My lastborn has a medical problem which as a man is both tough and hard to handle. My wife requested for a transfer which was not granted. Why bond someone to a rule that was abolished by parliament? Tafadhali naomba TSC muwe na Utu. Nimeteseka sana kulea watoto bila mama yao mwaka wa nne sasa.