Kenya, northeastern chiefs teaches school over teachers insecurity

Several schools in the northeastern province were last month closed for lack of teachers following mass transfers over insecurity. Northeastern school teachers fled from their duty after several attacks mainly targeted to teachers and students in the province.

Northeast student lack teacher which lead them to fear ahead of Kenyan national examination council of September 2020.some of the student left schools when they lost their teachers and lesson.

County official made last week significant meeting about the insecurity and school teachers attack.”We have decided to close the schools and ask parents to withdraw their children until the government puts its house in order “We want to have a united Kenya. Transferring teachers is creating divisions within this country because they are playing to the hands of the terrorists,” said Hassan Sheikh Ali, who spoke on behalf of the boards.

The remarks come just a day after the Teachers Services Commission (TSC) granted transfers to teachers who fled from their schools following attacks at Kakamega Primary School where 14 students lost their life barely two weeks ago killed four children in Saretho primary school.

Al-Shabab militants have been targeting non-locals working in the region and Kenya security forces patrolling the area since 2012 when Kenya security forces joined African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) for peacekeeping mission operated by the AU with approval of the UN council.

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