Learning in schools could soon be paralysed after teachers threatened to down tools if the government pushes through with a proposed plan to cut hardship allowances.
Speaking in Kajiado, Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) teachers Kajiado branch have revealed that if the government pushes through with the plan, they would initiate a national strike, affecting learning that has just entered term two. ''It seems these leaders make decisions in Nairobi without considering the hardships in other regions.
As KNUT, we are ordering that the hardship allowance remain, or else we will down tools here in Kajiado and extend the strike to the whole country," KNUT Secretary General Kajiado Branch Ely Korinko threatened.
Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi revealed that the government would begin cutting hardship allowances paid to thousands of civil servants after approving a long-delayed review of regions classified as hardship areas.
