It is saddening to hear that non-local teachers in the terror-prone counties of Garissa, Mandera, and Wajir are still being hunted by Al Shabaab militants who are now colluding with errant locals.
The latest attack on Arabia High School should just serve as a wake-up call to all teachers still holed up there.
I would never wish to isolate some counties, but going by the latest developments it is crystal clear that locals have teamed up with Al Shabaab sympathisers to frustrate the nonlocals.
That assailants know the specific identities of each and every school in the volatile regions means there should be an informer within the schools.
It can never happen that militiamen from Somalia make clever guesses of where local and non-local teachers live in a Kenyan school.
Never in history.
Cases of teachers being butchered have happened on several occasions in the past and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) once contemplated on transferring all the non-locals from the said counties.
However, when leading politicians from the region intervened, the matter was placed on hold.
Time has now come for teachers from different tribal affiliations out of the local should just think about opening up their minds and think beyond their payslips.
The TSC should also ask the local communities inhabiting the volatile regions to embrace community policing and take responsibility on the safety of all teachers working in their local schools.
The lives of non-local teachers are too important to be lost in the hands of local Alshabaab militants.
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