Knut leaders defy the court, insist strike to begin today

Kitui Knut branch Executive Secretary Simon Nding’o (second left), Branch Chairman Samuel Kathinuku (left) and other officials in a solidarity campaign at the union’s offices in Kitui town. They vowed to press on with the strike. [Paul Mutua, Standard]

The Kenya National Union of Teachers has defied the court and declared that the strike by its members will begin today ahead of the opening of schools tomorrow.

Even as the battle between the union and the tutors' employer - the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) - shifted to the courts, where the latter obtained orders stopping the strike, Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion, who spoke in Nairobi yesterday, said the directive would not stop the union's members from participating in the strike.