The chaotic drama unfolding within the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) over leadership took another twist today after its secretary-general Wilson Sossion was locked out of the union's offices in Nairobi.
Sossion said that he would institute legal proceedings against those behind his ouster, saying that they had conducted themselves in total defiance of a court order.
He defended his nomination to parliament as one that has added strength to the union as the concerns of the teachers were now better articulated than before.
''My nomination to parliament has added strength to the teachers' union. Teachers have been calling me from across the country, some shedding tears telling me how they are being transferred anyhow. We will institute legal proceedings against my colleagues who are behind this because they went against a court order,'' a seething Sossion said outside the Knut offices.
The teachers union has been locked in long-running leadership wrangles that threaten to weaken if not wreck it.
Those behind Sossion's ouster contend that he cannot properly represent teachers when he is still a nominated Member of Parliament.
He has maintained that he is legally in office and that he will not budge to demands for him to vacate office as the secretary-general of KNUT.