Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Teso Branch has vowed to continue with strike starting Monday next week until the government meets all their demands.
Addressing mourners today during the burial of Grace Ajuma Etyang, 80, at Kokare Village in Malaba South Ward, the branch chairman Alex Omoit said with talks appearing to hit a dead end, teachers have no option but to implement the strike notice.
“Parents should brace to stock food to retain their children at home because we shall not call off the strike until our demands are met,” the KNUT chairman said.
Omoit said among the demands they want the government to implement includes second phase of the Collective Bargain Agreement and remittance of third party deductions, which he claimed TSC has not remitted for the last two months.
Other demands include employment of Junior Secondary School teachers on permanent and pensionable terms.
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However, the CS for National Treasury John Mbadi said the government doesn’t have money to employ JSS teachers who are currently interns.
“Teachers are doing a commendable job. For effective implementation of the CBC system of education, we need more teachers. We also need the promotion of 130,000 teachers who did interviews in December 2023,” he said.
Omoit said the Teso North Member of Parliament Oku Kaunya came up with a masterpiece Strategic Development Plan, but it appears it had been put on the shelves.
“Many primary schools, including Kasogol Kakapel, Akudiet, Opare, and many others, have no classrooms,” he said, urging the MP to do something to restore parity in those schools instead of allowing dust to fill the plan.
In a quick rejoinder, Teso North NGCDF manager William Okalio said the issue of infrastructure in the constituency is on course.
He denied the claims that the Constituency Strategic Plan had been dropped, adding that the document was launched barely three months ago for five years.
By Godfrey Wamalwa
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