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Treasury runs out of options as teachers await Sh17 billion pay hike

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich

The four options that the Treasury was looking at to raise the Sh17 billion to pay teachers are unfeasible, the National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich has said.

Given these harsh realities, the Treasury chief says the government’s remaining option is to maintain the ‘status quo’.  This in effect means that the government will not comply with a High Court decision to give teachers a pay rise of at least 50 per cent—a decision that was upheld by the Supreme Court.

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