The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will start to effect transfer requests for teachers who are aged fifty years and above in a move geared towards ending delocalization.
The transfers will be effected and released in January 2023 after the TSC board sits and approve the online teacher transfer requests.
The Commission will act on the transfer requests after teachers are through with administration and marking of the 2022 national exams and assessments.
However details start to indicate that the Commission will give priority to teachers who are aged and nearing their retirement.
This was hinted yesterday Wednesday by the Deputy President, Rigathi Gachangua, who also said the transfers will be inline with the Kenya Kwanza manifesto and its Education Charter.
Gachagua who spoke during the launch of the induction of the 49-member working party in Karen said the Ruto administration is for a strong family unit to keep families together.
The 49-member team was appointed to submit recommendations to spearhead a review of the education sector.
“We had our plan, our manifesto, our education charter there are several things that we promised teachers. The issue of delocalization that has destroyed families. The Ruto administration is for a strong family unit to keep families together especially more so those teachers who are headed for retirement. We want to assist them to prepare for retirement,” said Gachagua.
The DP said they will meet TSC next week to have a discussion that will see teachers who were delocalized being transferred back to their home counties.
“We will be engaging with TSC next week so that the issue of delocalization is dealt with once and for all and teachers who are taken to places and their families put in awkward situation that matter is addressed so that we build strong family ties for a stronger nation,” said the DP.
In July 2021 in a move to entice teachers and respond to protests by teachers who opposed delocalization, TSC in a circular outlining the CBA 2021 – 2025 benefits allowed teachers to transfer to their spouses.
“However, to achieve the family values enshrined in the Constitution, the Commission shall consider transfer requests for married couples to appropriate stations/locations subject to availability of vacancies, the need for suitable replacement, existing staffing norms and proof of marriage among other factors,” read the CBA document.
However TSC had put the condition that the married couples must be both teachers and will only be transferred subject to availability of vacancies.
The issue of teacher delocalization destroying families and endangering teachers lives was also raised two weeks ago when TSC Commissioners embark on a countrywide collection of views from stakeholders in the teaching service in a bid to steer service re-engineering.
In a circular dated June 16th, 2022 signed by the Director of Administrative Services Ibrahim Mumin, the Commission had asked all Regional and County Directors to collect information from staff in all sub-counties, key stakeholders and teachers within their jurisdiction on how the Commission can improve its service delivery on its functions and critical business.
The Circular, which was also copied to the Commission Secretary and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Nancy Macharia, gave the TSC Regional and County Directors up to June 29th, 2022 to complete the exercise.
Most teachers requested the Commission to transfer them back home saying the delocalization only killed their morale for teaching.
TSC introduced the delocalization policy five years ago saying it will enhance national cohesion.
However the programme has received backlash from teachers and their unions who are now calling for its abolishment.
This has come the right time .Our families have suffered and others have even broken since spouses are living miles away from one another.
That very 👍
Thanks be to God.He has answered prayers through our leaders.God continue blessing them.
Delocalization is a real threat to teachers progress to the utmost degree. Young or old, all teachers are disadvantaged withal by this menace. Those with new relationships and marriages suffer a deeper mess since misunderstandings crop up from mistrust due to distance and ending up in break ups. Which means even young teachers who are married will never enjoy stability in marriages. Morale and passion for the job dies instantly because a torturing art has been built in the heart already
My relationship already broken. I had partner that we were headed for wedding. After delocalization, network was an issue in the new place. Distance was another challenge. The thought was I had got another. We tried to reunite but trust lacked due to suspicion. That was the end
What about we young families and yet working very far from our spouse .The same spouse when left with house help they turn against me . what can I do please??
Does it mean that if you are married to a farmer you don’t need to be near him or her?
This is heaven sent. Why would a teacher travel 300 kms to do the same work that could be done a few meters from their home? Time and money wastage
Delocalisation policy has compromised education standards.
No matter we are talking about nation cohesion, compromised education standards will take toll on it.
Teachers aren’t held accountable for poor results by the communities where the school is situated.
After all they argue that I will go back home.
Infact this government is very sensitive to teachers plight this time round. I suggest teachers be localized back to their subcounties NOT counties. This is a FREEDOM HAS COME to teachers going forward towards addressing many other issues affecting teachers.
Delocolized teachers are the least productive teachers …they are mainly affected by high cost of operations… Transport, rent…loneliness, hatred from other communities.. .Its not working…. Somebody in Head office is earning big while a classroom from Vihiga to Migori is earning 20 k….a big joke ! Teachers should go back to their zones and deliver!
Huyo mumama anaitwa Nancy Macharia ametesa walimu sana…So oppressive..Shetani mkubwa huyo. Can she be replaced asap.
So police officers and doctors dont needs to be near spouses
All Civil servants and even otigare sectors should now be posted to places of their choice near their spouses not only teachers and a kae should be passed to assist esp private sectors
How can national cohesion be promoted when the families of teachers are breaking up due to delocalization?
It worrying.Much grateful that we have the present government that Considers teachers as human beings
The monister(delocalization)shud end as early as today.There will be no perfomance from a stressed tr.
If our able president do not follow this exercise to the end, it may take the kenyan inhumane TSC officers decades to implement it.Again, the commission may create so many loopholes to siphone money from pockets of poor kenyan teachers.What ashame!!!
I got delocalized to kericho in londiani from Nyamira county. The far end, near bomet and maasai border( borabu). I was newly married. My parents are all crippled due to lifestyle diseases: HBP, DIABETES and STROKE. Im the youngest son, you know what that means to our culture. We take care of our parents in our compounds. Since 2019, I have passed through a lot of stress. No maid will ever take care of two ailing parents. How can a lady house help clean a man of that house and go ahead to the woman. House helps ends up running. Nobody knows what I’m passing through. Pls take us near our sub counties, we are dying of depression slowly
DELOCALIZATION has nothing to do with age.All affected teachers should go back home regardless of their ages.
National cohesion yes but not when they break the family which is the basic unit in the society through their delocalisation policy.
Young families should be a priority first. A young man and a woman living far due to delocalisation, is breaking up that family. Lets be realistic, these young families are breaking.
young teachers need localization more than old teachers.They want to develop themselves,have new and young families which require close attention.Old people have already stablised themselves.It good for young teacher to be also considered especially young couples.
young teachers need localization more than old teachers.They want to develop themselves,have new and young families which require close attention.Old people have already stablised themselves.It good for young teacher to be also considered especially young couples.
especially when delocolized to vihiga,
sabatia subcounty. You will feel like cuting short your life due to harrasment and intimidation from heads