National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale has criticised the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) for transferring non-local teachers working in North Eastern.
Non-local teachers working in the region have been demanding to be transferred to safer areas following attacks by Al-Shabaab militants.
TSC had begun transferring non-local teachers from Wajir County following the attack by Al-Shabaab on Qarsa Primary School on February 16, which resulted in the death of two teachers and the wife of one of the teachers.
Teachers working in the region who were seeking transfers had cited insecurity as their main concern adding that the region was unfit for them and their families.
Duale said it’s wrong for the teachers’ body to remove non-local teachers adding that security needs to be improved for the teachers.
Speaking in Nairobi on Saturday, the Garissa Township MP questioned how their children are going to learn when there are no teachers to teach them.
Mr Duale claimed that the directive by TSC was discriminatory and a violation of the students’ rights and residents.
“You cannot purport to remove teachers from North Eastern Province as it is in Kenya. They pay taxes, contribute to the economy of Kenya and the leader of the majority comes from there.
“Next time you will remove doctors and the police. Why are we not removing army officers from Somalia yet we have lost many people? Even when over 100 of our children were killed in Garissa University, we did not withdraw teachers,” he said as quoted by the Daily Nation.