Hundreds of teachers have been trooping to the Teachers Service Commission offices seeking to be transferred to other workstations.
Most of those seeking to be moved are teachers who have been working in North Eastern region specifically Marsabit County.
The number of requests hit a crescendo after three non-local teachers were targeted by unknown assailants.
Them attack saw one teacher killed and two others injured after being shot at by the criminals believed to have been terrorists or their sympathizers.
The sudden turn of events is likely to affect the region’s educational stability after witnessing massive migration of teachers a few years ago of non-local teachers over insecurity fears.
The transfers, if effected, will affect education with schools set to reopen next week.
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The criminals are targeting non-locals who work in Marsabit County.
“We are not guaranteed security and we feel non-locals are being targeted in Marsabit County. We, therefore, urge TSC to transfer us from the region and take us to safer places,” one teacher told Nation.
The new Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) secretary general has called on the national government to improve security to ensure non-local teachers are safe.
“Teachers have those who depend on them daily. The national government has to ensure security improves (in) the banditry-prone areas of Kapedo, Baragoi and other regions so that teachers can continue discharging their responsibility uninterrupted,” Mr Oyuu said.
It is not clear if TSC will grant the requests.
Meanwhile, teachers who are married but have been working away from their spouses have also started sending requests to be moved closer with their families after the signing of the recent Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).