Over taxation blow to education standards, says KUPPET

Teachers drawn from the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) listen to financial advice from Malindi businessman Alfred Agunga who encouraged them to engage in at least three income streams to cope with the high cost of living and taxes on their pay slips.[Nehemiah Okwembah/Standard]

Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) officials have decried high taxation, saying it had "suffocated" the teachers' ability to afford living expenses.

KUPPET officials in Kilifi and Tana River counties said teachers are now forced to engage in moonlighting, dealing a blow to the standards of education in the country.