Make a counter offer to lecturers; MPs tells Treasury

UASU National Chairman Muga Kolale (far left) KUSU Secretary General Charles Mukhwaya and UASU Sec Gen Dr Constantine Wasonga and other University Union officials addressing the media at UASU's offices Uniafric house, Nairobi. [Photo by Elvis Ogina/Standard]

Learning in public universities could resume next week if the National Treasury and Ministry of Education gives the unions a counter-offer to revive negotiations.

And while the ministry and Treasury were unclear about pension arrears amounting to Sh3.56 billion for the teaching and non-teaching staff, the unions insisted that the 2017-2021 collective bargaining agreement was the most contentious.