Kenya Kwanza's presidential running mate, Rigathi Gachagua, has promised to scrap the delocalisation of teachers rule imposed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) should his alliance ascend to power.
Speaking at a rally in Embu on Monday, July 25, Gachagua explained that the move will be done with a focus on keeping families intact.
Gachagua argued that the delocalisation of teachers breaks families as teachers are transferred far from their homes.
His government, under Deputy President William Ruto, will first seek consent from the tutors prior to creating a policy to address the issue.
“We shall not be a party to breaking families. Teachers will only be transferred from their home areas on their own volition," Gachagua pledged.
The policy was introduced with the aim of evenly distributing teachers across the country. TSC sought to ensure that no learning institutions suffered a shortage of teachers.
Soon after, an uproar erupted countrywide with many tutors lamenting that they were relocated away from their families and natural habitats.
In May 2022, the commission then allowed delocalised teachers to return to schools near their homesteads after working outside for five years.
There are over 750,000 teachers countrywide including 341,760 attached to TSC, 170,000 working in the private sector and 238,686 who are unemployed.
Both Kenya Kwanza and Azimio la Umoja have promised to meet teachers demands in an effort to win the tutors.
In their Manifesto, Kenya Kwanza promised to employ an additional 116,000 teachers as a way of addressing the pupil to teacher ratio in school.
Azimio la Umoja, headed by Raila Odinga, on the other hand, vowed to offer free education from nursery to the university.
Odinga also pledged to employ over 300,000 teachers to fill the deficit gap.
