Teachers strike bites across the country

Pupils take a nap as nationwide teachers strike took off Monday. (Photo:George Njunge/Standard)

Learning in public primary schools across the country was paralysed after more than 200,000 teachers defied the Government and refused to resume work at the start of the 2014 academic year.

The teachers, who were heeding calls by Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary General Wilson Sossion to down their tools, were protesting the Government's failure to increase their salaries and allowances.