Combative secretary
general of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Wilson Sossion
has reportedly hinted at quitting leadership of the union.
Sossion is reported to have asked the top leadership of Knut to prepare his retirement benefits and also told a group of teachers in the Rift Valley region that he was contemplating the move.
This development comes just a day after Sossion was conspicuously absent at a meeting his colleagues held at State House, Nairobi with President Uhuru Kenyatta.
He later disowned the outcome of the meeting that resolved to teachers get their september 2015 salaries Teachers Service Commission (TSC) – had withheld after they were five weeks on strike.
Sossion said he was not aware of the meeting.
The teachers who did not go to strike number over 40,000 while those who missed their pay for being on strike number over 240,000.
But it was agreed that the teachers should withdraw all cases they had filed against the government in relation to the dispute – a decision Sossion is opposed to.
The teachers were just preparing to go to the Supreme Court to fight for their 50-60 per cent pay rise that has been quashed by the Court of Appeal.
Sossion is reported to have asked the top leadership of Knut to prepare his retirement benefits and also told a group of teachers in the Rift Valley region that he was contemplating the move.
It is still not clear whether the 46-year old trade unionist will make good his quitting threats after he told Rift Valley teachers: “I should quit. I have endured enough and seen enough,” Henry Wanyama of The Star reports.“I have asked the NT (National Treasurer)/NC (National Chairman) to calculate and prepare my benefits,” a tweet from his account that was later withdrawn said.
This development comes just a day after Sossion was conspicuously absent at a meeting his colleagues held at State House, Nairobi with President Uhuru Kenyatta.
He later disowned the outcome of the meeting that resolved to teachers get their september 2015 salaries Teachers Service Commission (TSC) – had withheld after they were five weeks on strike.
Sossion said he was not aware of the meeting.
“I am not aware of any agreement with TSC… I am not aware of any meeting at State House,” Sossion said after the State House meeting. I am the holder of the seal of the union and the spokesperson of the union,” he added, alluding that the agreement would not be binding without his approval.At the November 10, 2015 meeting, the president directed that all the teachers who were at work during the five-week strike should be rewarded for their dedication.
The teachers who did not go to strike number over 40,000 while those who missed their pay for being on strike number over 240,000.
But it was agreed that the teachers should withdraw all cases they had filed against the government in relation to the dispute – a decision Sossion is opposed to.
The teachers were just preparing to go to the Supreme Court to fight for their 50-60 per cent pay rise that has been quashed by the Court of Appeal.
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