A group of non-local teachers in Mandera have castigated their colleagues for withdrawing their services in the region due to security concerns and discrimination by the locals.
The teachers drawn from private and public schools in the county denied allegation made by the non-local teachers who were transferred from North Eastern of being discriminated.
Mr. Patrick Mwiti, the principal of Ibnu Hajjir Integrated Academy said he has been a teacher in Mandera since 2011 and lives barely 200 meters from the Somalia border.
Mr. Mwiti said claims that locals were discriminating non-locals in buses and in buying goods from shops at a hiked price compared to the natives were not true.
He said he has never encountered any mistreatment from the locals adding that the school he teaches has 16 tutors, 12 of them being non local and they are contented working in the region.
“The non-local teachers who are currently in Nairobi are only seeking transfers to areas near their homes and nothing more. The allegations that locals were discriminating non-locals are not true. I have never encountered any mistreatment from the locals,” said Mr Mwiti as quoted by KBC.
Mandera West sub County Director of Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Mohamed Tullo Ali also denied allegations of sexual harassment on non-local female teachers.
“There were no records at Takaba police station registered by anybody on sexual harassment and there are no reports on the same in my office,” said Mr. Tullo.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has transferred more than 900 non -local teachers from the region following an attack on February 16 at Qarsa Primary School.
The attack left three non-local teachers dead and since then non-local teachers working in the region have been demanding to be transferred to safer areas.
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