Kenya national Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary General Wilson Sossion has sparked another controversy by proposing that Secondary school students should be allowed to use mobile phones in school.
Sossion claimed that mobile phones will help digitise learning in schools hence they should not be banned.
"Phones are just computers and our students should be allowed to own them in school to assist in their learning if the government wants to digitise education in the country," he stated.
The Knut SG said that it was not proper to credit cheating in national exams to using the gadget in schools. He further urged Education CS Fred Matiang'i to immediately lift the ban on using phones in schools.
Sossion also termed the ban as 'imprisonment' adding that if the digitising education in the country will remain a dream if the gadgets are not allowed.
"Let us not continue imprisoning them while dreaming of revolutionising ICT in the country. Innovations in the IT are done by youth and the country should move in that direction," said Sossion.
"Learners are being held back from breaking new grounds by being denied to utilise technology and it should be given priority so that the country can move fast," he added
Sossion further claimed that many prohibitions such as limiting some third-term events and extending the term dates are to blame for the wave of unrest in schools.