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    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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    "content": "an anomaly that TSC carried out administratively yet we are trying to look at it in terms of a policy that needs to be there and perhaps corrected. In my view, this was an anomaly that we should not have at all. We have to look at these things in terms of the processes involved all through from recruitment to deployment. After serving for 30 to 40 years, another redeployment is done in the name of delocalisation, which in actual sense is supposed to be looked at as transfers. The manner in which these transfers that we are calling delocalisation was done is the problem. The problem is so gross. You cannot recruit and deploy locally then wait for 30 years to move that person from the station in the name of another process of redeployment that you are calling delocalisation. This is where the problem is. We must correct this thing from the very beginning. We should correct it from the recruitment and deployment stages such that the rest of the things are looked at as transfers, and not another administrative process where we collect a big number of elderly teachers – people who are almost retiring – and put them in buses and haul them from their local areas to far away districts and counties. I think this is where the problem is. The whole idea of delocalisation, in my view, should not be there. If we look at this thing from the root, let us recruit a teacher as any other civil servant who can be placed and work anywhere in this country and he gets used to that arrangement from the very beginning such that when he is deployed in Garissa or Turkana, they will go and work there. That way, if a teacher is transferred, we look at it as transfer like it happens to any other civil servant. The idea that you could recruit them and post them locally and then all of a sudden you haul them out of the local environment after serving for a period of time in the name of an administrative exercise called delocalisation, in my view, is wrong. It is totally wrong. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as a leader of teachers, you need to pick this matter from there. In my view, we do not need to do a policy for now. Let us correct the process of recruitment and deployment. Immediately those things are corrected, then there will be no need for something called “delocalisation.” People and teachers will be transferred. If we do not look into this matter now, the idea of delocalising people who are almost retiring, as a permanent solution, should not be there. In my view, we should not be having a policy called “delocalisation.” Where there was a mess from 2018 to-date in the name of delocalisation, let us handle it administratively through proper process, and we do not need to transfer people en- mass. It should be carried out in a manner where there are notices. It was not the mistake of the teachers who are getting delocalised. They did not recruit or post themselves to those schools. This issue of delocalisation needs to be relooked at such that we look at transfers in a manner similar to that of a civil servant. When looking at it in that manner, we need to consider very many other things. You cannot allow someone to serve in one station for very many years then you later on move them to strange places they do not know. Recruitment of both primary and secondary schools teachers was being done at the county and subcounty levels by school BoMs. The process has been moved, in the last one year or so, to Nairobi but the process of identifying who is supposed to be recruited is still based on the sub-county where somebody comes from. So, applications are done in a place like Bondo, they are picked and brought to Nairobi and when postings are being done, this same TSC posts teachers to their local areas. Once you have posted them there, why harass them later when they have settled in those areas for such a long period of time. The TSC must just look at its processes of recruitment and redeployment afresh. There should be nothing like redeployment but transfers. There should be no more transfers like the way civil servants are transferred. Sometimes transfers could be requested. Teachers could be requesting for transfers, just like many other civil servants do. When you are transferred to a place where you cannot fit, there are always reasons why one can seek to be transferred. This process needs to be looked at the way we look at other civil servants. There are a lot of advantages when you work elsewhere other than your area. However, when this thing is The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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