Polytechnic instructors across Kisii County officially kicked off their strike on Wednesday and vowed not to head back to class until the regional government improves working conditions.
Students in the 65 institutions are set to be affected after the tutors downed tools.
The instructors told the students to stay home until the County improves working conditions for them.
The tutors, among other things, have protested the delay in Kisii County Governor James Ongwae to cedes to their demands.
The instructors led by Mr Stephene Onchoke said they had not been paid for more than three years and that only a few tutors were employed under the devolved unit.
Mr Onchoke who is also the Kisii County Polytechnic Instructors’ Chairman further accused Ongwae of hypocrisy saying he has been taking them in circles rather than addressing their grievances.
On Tuesday, the tutors matched through the streets of Kisii town chanting anti-Ongwae slogans.
They said they will only go back to class when their demands are met.
Among other things, they also want the County to employ a number of instructors that had been on Top-Up and who are serving on meager wages for more than 10 years.
"Let Governor Ongwae know we are not going to go back to work untill our terms are improved," Mr Onchoke said.
Early on Wednesday, they visited the labor offices before addressing the press.
They also matched through the streets to the Agricultural Training College where Governor Ongwae was said to be in a meeting with bodaboda operators but went in through the back gate.
Neither Ongwae nor his executives were ready answer queries from the press.