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Crisis as Treasury withholds teachers' pay in Kenya

NAIROBI, KENYA: Over 288,000teachers are yet to be paid their November salaries because their employer and Treasury are tussling over a new payroll system.

The Standard established the National Treasury has declined to release Sh13.8billion to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), citing failure to install software the Government recommended to track financial transactions.

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