KNUT: Learning to be paralysed in public schools over housing tax

Former Knut Secretary General Francis Ng'ang'a and current holder of that position Wilson Sossion at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

A teachers' union has threatened to call a strike next month if the Government does not abandon new statutory deductions to fund construction of houses.

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) has also rejected contributory pension, arguing that the two deductions were not factored in during the negotiation of the Collective Bargain Agreement that covers the period 2017-2021.