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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>About 61 teachers posted to rural schools in Zambezi following the recruitment of over 30,000 teachers in 2022 have left the North-Western Province district on transfer with most of them citing illness.<\/p>\n

However, Zambezi District Commissioner Simeon Machayi is not convinced by the reasons advanced by most teachers, who continue to draw their salaries on establishments for schools in the district.<\/p>\n

Mr Machayi said most of the teachers sent to Zambezi look at the area as remote and fail to adapt to the environment. \u201cMost of them I do not know how they negotiate with doctors to write them medical conditions which they never brought up at the time they were seeking for employment,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the over 500 teachers that we received in 2023, about 61 have already left the district on transfers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are transfers that are not initiated from here, they just come with letters already signed to the DEBS office that \u2018I have already been transferred and I am going back\u2019, but these are the teachers that are still drawing salaries under Zambezi.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Machayi said he has records of personnel from Ministry of Education headquarters who have been signing on the transfer letters for the teachers to be removed from the district.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, this time around, I will be coming to Solwezi with a list of those teachers that have been transferred from Zambezi, which I have already compiled to present to the permanent secretary so that maybe those teachers are removed on our payroll or they are dismissed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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