Big blow to Kenyan teachers as judges reverse 50-60 pc salary hike

KNUT Chairman Mudzo Nzili (left) KNUT treasurer John Matiangi (centre) and KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion during the ruling at Court Of Appeal. PHOTO: BEVERLYNE MUSILI

NAIROBI: The Court of Appeal Friday denied the country’s 288,000 teachers the hefty court-awarded pay rise, criticised the judge who issued the award, and exonerated the teachers’ employer for ignoring the order to pay the increase.

In a six-hour judgement delivered to a packed courtroom, the five-judge bench shattered the hopes of teachers for more money and insisted that the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) had to be involved in setting new pay.