Knut sets stage for pay talks, tells SRC to stay in its lane

Hesbon Otieno deputy secretary general KNUT speaking during TSC stakeholders forum on teacher preparedness for school reopening. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Deputy Secretary-General, Hesbon Otieno, has reaffirmed the union’s demand for a 60 per cent increase in teachers’ basic salaries and a 30 per cent rise in all allowances.

Speaking during Knut’s Bureti Branch Annual General Meeting in Litein, Kericho County on Saturday, Otieno criticised the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) for opposing the union’s demands, stating that the SRC had overstepped its purely advisory mandate.