All we heard were the same things Murchr preaches here. Probably a state house hack who writes the speaches.


Listen Mr. President


A Court told you to pay.


You were elected through the same court to ensure that rules of law are followed.

Pay!!!!!!!


Hii ingine of sijui trillion dollars and funny posts on Business daily of increasing VAT ni nyef nyef.

Mr. President, if you can't follow a court order, I have no reason to follow any law in this country.

All we heard were the same things Murchr preaches here. Probably a state house hack who writes the speaches.


Listen Mr. President


A Court told you to pay.


You were elected through the same court to ensure that rules of law are followed.

Pay!!!!!!!


Hii ingine of sijui trillion dollars and funny posts on Business daily of increasing VAT ni nyef nyef.

Mr. President, if you can't follow a court order, I have no reason to follow any law in this country.

The mandate of the SRC is to set, review and advise on the remuneration of all state and public servants, including teachers and myself, with a view to ensuring that the public wage bill is fiscally sustainable. At the moment, our public wage bill accounts for 52% of revenue.

The global average for middle-income countries like us is about 35%. Further, the public wage bill accounts for more than 10% of our Gross Domestic Product, well above the middle-income country average of about 5%.

All public and state officers, myself included, number 680,000, just about 1.5% of the entire Kenyan population.

It is important to point out that of the KSh 1.1 trillion collected in revenue last year, KSh 568 billion went to pay our wages, meaning that 1.5% of us consumed 52% of our revenues.

The TSC and the SRC took the view that their constitutional mandate had been usurped. They appealed, and they will be heard on Tuesday 22nd September 2015. There has been no final determination of this award.

Contrary to assertions in the public domain, the Supreme Court did not make any determination regarding the award: it decided only that it lacked jurisdiction to hear an application challenging the exercise of discretion by the Court of Appeal.

The claim that the TSC still owes our teachers money under the 1997 agreement is not true. Then, teachers were awarded a pay rise of between 150 and 200%. The award has been settled in full.

A P1 teacher who earned a gross salary of Ksh 7,762 then now earns a minimum of KSh 23,692, while the highest paid teacher who took home KSh 35,886 then now earns a minimum of KSh 140,089.

In any case, 55% (approx. 168,000) of all teachers employed by the TSC are in job groups J to N, earning between Ksh 35,000 and Ksh 75,000 a month. This is significantly higher than their counterparts in the private sector. Ironically, private schools often perform better than their public counterparts.

The claim that Kenyan teachers are paid less than their colleagues in the region is also not true. The lowest-paid teacher in Kenya earns seven times as much as his counterpart in Burundi.

The lowest paid teacher in Uganda earns the equivalent of KSh. 7,600; the lowest paid in Tanzania KSh. 15,800, compared to the lowest-paid Kenyan teacher who takes home over Ksh. 23,000. Indeed, Kenya’s teachers are the third-highest paid on the continent, after Morocco and South Africa both of whose economies are larger ours.