Over thirty part time lecturers and tutors in a section of private and public universities in Nakuru town are threatening to sue the universities’ managements over what they term as overdue payments and misrepresentation.
Speaking to this writer on Wednesday, the group’s spokesman Benson Chakava said that the group was contemplating moving to court to demand for its rights from the universities, after prolonged failures by respective institutions’ managements to pay them their dues.
According to Chakava, a computer engineering tutor attached to various universities in Nakuru on a part time basis, the higher learning institutions were exploiting the part-time tutors by continued failure to pay them, and also the failure to employ them permanently.
The tutor claimed that the universities including main universities in the town owe them over Sh5milion unpaid salaries since early last year.
“We have hired a lawyer and officially written to the universities Vice-Chancellors about our intensions. We have not been receiving our dues regularly and not in full, while being promised to be employed on a permanent and pensionable scale. We have since realized that this is a delaying tactic and ploy to escape legal action but enough is enough. We will meet with them in court,” said Chakava.