True leadership entails telling the truth as is however painful it is.The more convenient option is to increase salaries for teachers,doctors,nurses,police etc to appease them.
Kenya is a 3rd world country and our wage bill is not sustainable.
Maybe the same court should tell us where to get the money to pay the teachers.
The Okoa Kenya campaign should be focused on reducing the wage bill if Cord have interest of this country at heart.
The govt should also put deliberate measures to reduce corruption,misappropriation and wastage for us to believe they are committed in improving our living standards.People should be prosecuted for Wheelbarrows za 110K,facebook Accounts za 1.2m,800m ya NYS etc.
The salaries for mps,senators,mrats should also be slashed.

True...they should sort out their own issues.

Just thinking that this is how its going to play out:

Step one - Gova continues its hard line stance - cant pay wont pay. Teachers continue with their stand 'cant increase wont teach'. Status quo remains till exams (administered by NYS, army, prison warders, police, etc) are over in early/mid november.

Step two - Gova moves to sack all the teachers except headmasters. With no salaries for september, october (and no loan deductions remittances from August till october) the heat of liabilities is now on the teachers - rent, loans etc have to be paid. The average teacher becomes desperate.

Step three - Gova advertises to employ teachers (both old and new) and employs them on a new contract (not subject to the court order of 50-60%) and includes a clause that no deductions or remittances will be made to the unions. Each teacher to send contributions directly (or better still outlaws unions or categorizes teachers in same bracket as police officers - essential services not allowed to form unions).

Step four - teachers take government to court for arrears of 50-60% since 2013 to time of sacking. Government obeys the new order and pays.

Step five. Schools are re-opened in December with old/new teachers.

Net effect - (1) Uhuru vs Sossion (or as some may want to mis-brand it uhuru vs raila) battle is won by uhuru; (2) New contract of employment not subject to 50-60% increment...gova can pay - economy is not hurt and salary structure is not distorted (3) Knut/Kuppet - weaken due to collection of contribution woes/ die off/Outlawed.


Anyway just my thoughts.

@ Winston.. going by uhuru's statement, the govt will let the matter pan wout in court to it's logical conclusion.... but i think there is a loophole in the laws and parliament need to streamline... last card is for tsc to ask those teachers not satisfied with current pay package to leave the service and look for alternative employment elsewhere where they can get commensurate pay