After 18 years of court battles, the 52,000 retired teachers from Nakuru can now rest assured that their fight for the payment of Sh30 billion in salaries and pension arrears is over, and it’s just a matter of time for them to receive their dues.
In a report by the Daily Nation online platform, the government has committed to paying the former teachers in two phases.
The first batch which has been catered for in the Supplementary Budget soon to be tabled in Parliament, has Sh6 billion.
The balance, Sh24 billion, will be included in the 2016-17 budget to be settled in the second phase.
The retirees, through their popular 1997 group, took the Teachers Service Commission to court after it failed to honour the 1997 agreement between the government and Kenya National Union of Teachers.
They sued the TSC in 2006, claiming unpaid lump-sum salary raises and accrued pension from July 1997.
In December last year, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal decision that directed TSC to pay the retirees, an almost two decades battle between the retirees and TSC.