All Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) teachers in West Pokot Teachers have vowed to organise the mother of all strikes if the promise to increase their salary is not honoured.
Teachers through their union had a filed a case in court seeking an increase in pay by the county administration and the ruling was in their favour.
The disgruntled teachers through the West Pokot Kenya Union of Pre-Primary Education Teachers (KUNOPPET) Executive Secretary Joseph Sarich have urgently sought clarification on why the expected contract had been breached which was contrary to the court’s determination of the matter.
In a letter seen by Education News and after carrying out an interview with concerned officers, a vivid explanation has been given why there is a delay in the increase. It has been attributed to the slow pace of implementation of the agreement to the payroll migration system.
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According to the Chief Officer in-charge of Education Julius Lokituman, it’s a robust process of moving to a new payroll platform from the existing one.
Lokituman identified yet another impediment to the process, was late submission for the teachers and staff qualifications that precipitated harmonising the individual teacher data with the rightful pay package.
The West Pokot County government has asserted that all the necessary interventions have now been updated and the teachers in question would receive their enhanced dues in the month of February with their arrears. It has further averted any worries and asked teachers to be patient till then.
By Hillary Muhalya
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