Kenyan teachers in new stand-off over pay

L-R KUPPET Akello Misori, KNUT secretary general Wilson Sossion and KNUT treasurer John Matiang’i outside the court after a hearing. PHOTO: GEORGE NJUNGE

NAIROBI: The Government and teachers are headed for another round of confrontation should the latter fail to release the September salaries for the 240,000 tutors.

The two teachers’ unions (Kenya National Union of Teachrs and Kenya Union of Post primary Education Teachers) also demanded the immediate release of union dues and third party deductions to cooperative movements by close of business yesterday.