President Uhuru Kenyatta has intervened to ensure that teachers signed a collective bargaining agreement with Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC).
The agreement will see that a three-year standoff that has occasioned a series of strikes, across the country, is put to an end.
President Kenyatta invited officials of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Teachers (Kuppet) to State House for several meetings that eventually resulted in the deal.
The President pledged the government’s commitment to work with the unions to improve education standards in the country.
Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion and Kuppet Chairman Omboko Milemba on Saturday acknowledged that the intervention of the Head of State played a critical role in striking the deal. However, they insisted that the deal was not motivated by political gains.
“It is not about politics of 2017. Our major concern is the welfare of teachers of this country,” Sossion said.
Milemba said they will be patient to see the government honour its part of the bargain.