Teachers go after Ruto over the pre-election agreement as they now asking the president to fulfill his pledges.
Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) are now asking President William Ruto to fulfill his pre-election pledges.
Speaking to the media on Sunday, November 13, the union’s management announced that it had reached an agreement with Kenya Kwanza before the general election on August 9.
A number of agreements, including a wage raise for the teachers, were entered into by the teachers after they pledged their support to the Head of State.
Moses Nthurima, the deputy secretary general of KUPPET, emphasized in his speech that it was time for the promises to be kept because the economy had improved.
“We signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the incoming Government before they were elected and a number of things were agreed upon.
“Our expectations as a union is that TSC will roll out sessions for negotiations because the economy has improved and teachers cannot wait any more,” he stated.
Besides, the union is also seeking more funding to roll out the Competency-Based Curriculum arguing that the new system was better placed to instill useful skills in the learners.
“The current system is knowledge-based. We want to expand an education system that will ensure that our children will fit into society and the economy. That can only happen if the Government supports CBC,” corroborated Ronald Kiprotich, KUPPET’s Assistant Treasurer.
The requests were made just one day after Akello Misori, the secretary general of the unions urged the Treasury and MPs to contribute Ksh8.9 billion to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) in order to implement teachers’ coverage.
Misori claimed that Treasury had only made a Ksh15 billion payment, leaving a gap that had an impact on the implementation of medical insurance.
“We have in our knowledge that Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and NHIF already had an arrangement for a comprehensive medical cover but the bottleneck is NHIF cover demands an additional Ksh8.9 billion to be effected… In the absence of the provision of this amount, then teachers will be out of cover,” stated Misori.
The teachers are also seeking to have the delocalization law overturned to allow them to work closer to their homes.
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