Teachers should go for the lesser evil

NAIROBI: The leadership of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and that of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) have committed themselves so much that they have no honourable way of extracting themselves from the mire President Kenyatta herded them, even though Mr Wilson Sossion and Mr Mudzo Nzili have been hailed as the fiercest defenders of teachers rights in recent times.

As generals, they have been pre-occupied with winning the war; charging, like the Japanese did at American soldiers in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1941 before the besieged Americans dropped the atomic bomb on them and altered the equation at Hiroshima in 1945. Charging headlong, the unions forgot to cover their flanks; leaving their rear open to attack.