I'm looking at those who are now pushing for respect of court orders and SMH.

Someone enlighten me, how many hours do the pigs work? how many leave days do they get? How much do they earn in sitting allowances? in short they are actually paid to work besides the normal salary.
Kweli mnyonge hana haki.

PS: am not a teacher, chose not to be one because i was a difficult student, couldnt imagine dealing with other people's brats on a daily basis. Those people are the most patient and God sent i know in Kenya.

Wapewe pesa, hata kama ni ya laptop!!!

The argument that teachers are being paid too much or too little is neither here nor there.

Infact, the teachers should get on point and move the narrative LOUDLY to the issue at hand.

The gov't made a promise, signed a contract and even made a gazette notice to the same.

It will be a very bad precedent if a gov't reneges on a promise of any sort. If gov't can't honour a contract, then what makes you think that your T-bills won't be honoured for political expediency.

So not knowing how much they are being paid or will be paid or if its higher than nurses, the issue is. The gov't is refusing to honour a contract. That cannot be allowed by anyone.

I'd advice nurses and similar unionised civil servants to hire KNUT managers to promote their interests rather than complaining that teachers get paid too much.

And the court really really cannot force me to go to work. That is slavery mambo leo. I thought the judiciary was reformed.

Ambrose Adondo Adeya, KNUT Secretary
General (RIP), once told Moi; 'We will not attend any meeting even if it is called by God and Jesus in heaven, so dont tell us about a mere State House!'. Hehehehe. This 'We dont draw salaries from Kaimenyi and Kaimenyi Investments' guy will become a small Ambrose Adongo in future!

@alma, I dont think the govt has refused to honor it, rather the teachers feel that the programs the govt is running aren't worth it and they would rather be paid their money at once. (Blackmail, since when did they become policy makers)

So since they are all playing hard, maybe its time the contract is re-examined...was it time bound? You know the govt too cant be forced to pay all at once esp if there was a formula as to how the money would be paid.

I know nothing about that

In the 1997 memorandum of agreement, the government committed itself to paying medical, house, commuter, hardship and special education allowances.

According to this same agreement, the Government tried to negotiate for an implementation period of 5 years. However, the teachers refused and thus the Government agreed to pay in 2 phases.

The Government already implemented the 1st phase however, after that The Kibaki government refused to continue to honor this agreement.

The Gava claims to have no money. However, i think there is a lot of wastages going round in this country. When we want to use 50 million for entertainment, 70 million for cars, 100 million for renovating a residence that no one has ever occupied. Plus makie our lives more difficult throug 16%VAT which will be used to buy more cars and planes.

My God!!!! This Digital Government was supposed to bring new things and better ways of doing things. A little nip and tuck here and there will avail some necessary cash to take out country further.

A plan that can very easily backfire. M.O-1 tried it with medics in the mid 90s and suffice it to say, we're still paying for that. Meanwhile, Botswana, Namibia and lately, Zambia & The DRC continue to be the greatest beneficiaries of that blunder. To this day, there're less than 3000 medics on gov't payroll expected to serve all of Kenya.

@alma; the assumption that the public has sympathy with teachers is false. Public is angry that our kids are not going to school.. we want teachers back in class pronto!

For the avoidance of doubt, I do NOT support the teachers...and I have kids in public school.

Din't know that, if that's the case the knut guys must have very sound legal advice - but would a strike before june 30th nullify the said piece of legislature