Some 36 teachers were killed and 8 others injured in the last ten years as a result of insecurity in ASAL areas.
The details were revealed by Interior CS Kithure Kindiki while appearing before MPs on Wednesday.
In his presentation, Kindiki said the injuries and deaths were especially a result of attacks from al Shabaab.
In 2012, a teacher was killed during an attack at Gerille Police Post in Wajir South subcounty.
Another male teacher working at Shafshafey Primary School was also found murdered with two gunshot wounds on his chest by suspected al-Shabaab militants within the Mandera East subcounty.
An attack at the AIC Church in Garissa town in 2012, left a teacher from Umul-Kher Primary School, Garissa subcounty sustaining leg injuries.
In addition, a Board of Management teacher at Damajale Primary School in Garissa County was killed in a police camp.
Kindiki said the terrorists attack teachers in police camps as most of them seek hideouts from there.
To prevent teachers' attacks on roads, Kindiki urged the Teachers Service Commission to issue flight tickets to non-local teachers in the areas, especially during the opening and closing of schools.
This is after eighteen teachers lost their lives in 2014, when a bus they were traveling in from Mandera to Nairobi was involved in a terror attack, in Arabia subcounty.
“Seventeen of them were working in private schools and one was working under TSC,” reads the report.
An ECD teacher working in Mandera North also sustained gunshot wounds when a vehicle she was traveling in was ambushed and sprayed with bullets.
He said the move to issue air tickets to teachers will enhance their safety when traveling in long distances.
"TSC should consider paying flight tickets for the teachers in Mandera County since road transport poses greater risk. History has shown that teachers are attacked while traveling. The distance from Mandera to Nairobi is around 1,100km long and risky," Kindiki said.
Kindiki also proposed a shorter period of service for the non-local teachers in the areas.
This is after a teacher was killed in 2016 while protecting non-local teachers on a bus. The victim was, however, awarded a Head of State commendation posthumously.
In 2018, two male teachers were also fatally shot at Arabia Boys Secondary School and their bodies were burnt beyond recognition.
Two other non-local teachers who were residing within the school escaped unhurt.
The CS said placing teachers in such areas for too long affects their mental health as the attacks keep on taking place.
"We recommend TSC not to keep non-local teachers that serve in the area for too long because it contributes to their mental stress and even the risk of them getting absorbed and being recruited into some of these networks," Kindiki said.
In order to curb insecurity in the Asal areas, Kindiki vowed to move non-local teachers to safe areas during periods of high-security threats.
"We are going to pool together teachers operating in a given locality to reside in a central safe place where they are guarded by security officers," he said.
He added that they are going to intensify dominance patrols in routes frequently used by the non-local teachers.
Further, teachers will be sensitized to be on high alert to share information on any threatening information received or any suspicious persons sighted within the vicinity of their workplaces or residences.
He also said that more security personnel will be deployed in schools.
