Kisumu residents have petitioned Education Cabinet Secretary Proff Jacob Kaimenyi to address teachers’ grievances in order to end the ongoing strike.
For the second day running, learning at public schools was paralaysed, with no academic activities taking place either in the classrooms or the staffroom.
Kisumu Residents Voice Association Chairman Audi Ogada has asked the government to settle out scores with the teachers’ union, Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), for continuation of academic activities in the country’s public schools.
However, teaching had started and is currently on going in the city’s private schools such as Aga Khan Primary, Golden Elites, Josana Academy, among others.
“Our children are being wasted during the strike and it is about time the government stepped in to see into how the teachers’ issues can be amicably addressed once and for all to prevent future strikes from the teachers’ union,” said Ogada.
“The Cabinet Secretaries for Labour, Education and National Treasury ministries should really look into ways of addressing the grievances,” added Ogada.
He noted that it is unfair for the government to let public schools’ teachers to continue striking as learning is going on in private schools.