The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), Nyando branch has maintained that they will not be moved by threats directed to them by the government to go back to class.
Speaking at Awasi in Nyando at a protest march on the streets, Nyando branch Secretary General J.J Obungu told teachers to remain united and embrace the strike until the government decides to act on their tabled plights.
Obungu encouraged teachers to listen only to the directions from the national KNUT office and on the other side close them to any other authority.
Nyando branch chairman Caleb Ojwala also jeered the zonal education officials and the local administrators who he said now threaten teachers to get back to class, purporting that they have orders from above offices.
He told the officials and the administrators to keep off teachers affairs since they have no legal powers to stop the teachers' strike, a thing he said can only be called off by the top union leaders.
Also in the demonstrating lot was the branch treasurer Erick Duya who compared the teachers' salary to that of the junior clerical staff in grade three.
“There is no way a teacher can be paid a mere Sh 16,000 compared to that of a support staff that stands at Sh 17,000,” he said.
Duya maintained that no amount of threat shall compel the back to work before their salary increment is implemented. The three officials urged their colleagues to retain students in school to set them home, saying that they risk spending double should the tern be extended by the government.