Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion during a past event [PHOTO/Citizentv.co.ke]
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary General Wilson Sossion refuted claims of a split in the teachers' union.
This comes amid increasing speculations that outgoing chairman Mudzo Nzili was forced out of Knut.
In a Sunday press briefing in Nairobi, Sossion laughed off the claims and said the union had “exercised a lot of internal democracy” to get a new chairperson in the confines of Knut laws.
“We don’t kick out anybody. We have got organised transition of leadership in the union, and all that is casted in the constitution of the Kenya National Union of Teachers. I would like to allay fears that there is a split in the union. In fact, there is a lot of constitutional order,” said Sossion.
He asked any aggrieved parties to express their complaints with the union or go to court. “If any citizen is aggrieved, he is free to complain to us as a leadership, or to move to court,” Sossion said.
His statement comes just a day after Nzili was sent on a six-month terminal leave awaiting his retirement scheduled for May 2018.
“If there are issues that need to be thrashed, they will be discussed by the NEC this week,” he added.