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    "content": ": Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to this Motion by Hon. Titus Khamala. It has come at the right time. Before I do that, I want to congratulate you for your elevation to the Chairperson’s Panel. I know that you fit and you will definitely perform. The issue of delocalisation is very emotive to our teachers who we value very much. The first time delocalisation came, it was seen as a disciplinary measure by the Teachers Service Commission. The people who were targeted in my Constituency, Buuri, were teachers who were leaders of Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), Kenya Secondary School Heads Association (KESSHA) and Kenya Primary Schools Head Teachers Association (KEPSHA). They were the ones who were transferred in form of delocalisation. We did not view it as part of TSC’s way of doing things. From that perspective, I strongly feel that we need a policy. TSC headquarters has become an animal by itself. When everybody is talking of delocalisation of services to the basic unit, TSC has taken over recruitment and the promotion process of teachers! In fact, everything is now being controlled from there. This institution is being run without consultation. For the last four years, the only thing that the TSC’s County Education Directors together with Curriculum Committee (DCC) have been doing is to recommend hiring or promotions and everything sent to the headquarters. Thereafter, they would transfer teachers. I have been in this Parliament for the last five years and there is no senior teacher who has been promoted. We however, saw an influx of headteachers from other counties being given opportunities to serve as headteachers without even serving as deputy headteachers first. To me and my colleagues here, TSC is an animal that is not serving the interest of the teaching profession in this country and we must condemn their actions. I want to put it on record that my Constituency, Buuri, has so many headteachers who have never been promoted and I do not see light at the end of the tunnel as long as the animal sitting at the headquarter is there. Something must be done. When I finished my university I was told that I can serve in any part of this country. The TSC has said you can, but it has no policy to determine how and when! If you tell me that I am going to serve as a headteacher in a certain school, why then do you delocalise me after three years? We really need to be serious with education in this country. The TSC is always in conflict with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. It has assumed powers that it can do things without public participation. This has been happening, particularly with the current Chief Executive Officer of TSC, Madam Nancy Macharia. She is operating alone in an ivory tower up there. They do not visit schools in the 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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