The Parliamentary Education Committee has urged the Teachers Service Commission to provide counseling for the over 2,000 teachers that have boycotted duty in Northern Kenya.
Ms Sabina Chege, the committee chair has requested the government to beef up security in the area to provide teachers with a safe space to be able to carry out their duties.
Chege, who is also Murang’a’s women’s representative added that teachers who have served for more than five years under harsh conditions such as the one in Garrisa must be transferred to other schools as is stipulated by the law.
The teachers working in Mandera, Garissa and Wajir have rejected numerous calls from the government to go back to work citing insecurity reasons.
This action follows a bus attack in which 28 people, 21 of whom were teachers were killed last year in Mandera. Chege added that the teachers might still be traumatized over the incident which saw them witness the murder of their colleagues.