Before Thursday's anticipated National Executive Council meeting, KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion's fate was being sealed elsewhere.
Aware on the chaos on Thursday, Sossion moved to court to block the meeting, which he after all succeeded because NEC was stopped from holding it.
But within Nairobi, are least 10 NEC members held a meeting, which lasted for four hours, in which they crafted a different agenda, from the one one that had been circulated.
“All along we have been meeting, and we know him very well, Sossion is very predictable and we knew he would rush on the last minute to cancel that meeting he had called and that is what caused us to have the fall back plan,” said a senior official of the Union who was key in the effecting the plans.
When Sossion played his last card on Wednesday evening and suspended the meeting he had called, the rest of the national officials including chairman Wycliffe Omucheyi, Treasurer John Matiang’i Deputy Secretary General Hesborn Otieno Agolla and other members of the National Steering Committee retreated and unleashed their wild card.
“We were aware that police would be deployed to man the offices, and also knew that Sossion’s sympathisers would camp there, but we agreed that we will be resolute and ensure that we hold our meeting, whatever time, but within the course of the day,” said another NEC official.
The splinter group had it's way on Friday, having the labour ministry suspending Sossion and subsequently replacing him with Mr Ogolla.
On Friday, Omucheyi and Agolla, the latter who was voted to be the acting Secretary General, said that they had not violated the court orders stopping the meeting.
“Our meeting was not based on the letter and motion dated August 7. That is the meeting that was stopped by the Court. The meeting was based on a request that was placed on August 27, and which met all the conditions set by our Constitution,” said Mr Omucheyi.
The officials accuse Sossion of being at loggerheads with the government all the time, making it difficult for members to bargain for certain benefits. Sossion is also a nominated MP.