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Kenya: Knut in Fresh Talks Over Salary Raise
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The Nation (Nairobi)
13 May 2008
Posted to the web 13 May 2008
Angwenyi Gichana And Ouma Wanzala
Nairobi
The Kenya National Union of Teachers has entered into fresh talks with the Government on a new pay increment, a top official has said.
National treasurer Fred Ontere said the Teachers' Service Remuneration Committee would meet this week for discussions on the fresh salary review.
Personnel
The Teachers' Service Remuneration Committee consists of representatives from Knut, the Teachers' Service Commission, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance and the Directorate of Personnel Management.
Kisii branch chairman Geoffrey Mogire and Nyamira branch executive secretary Richard Kibagendi accompanied Mr Ontere at the news conference.
"We have entered into fresh negotiations with a view of having the teachers salaries reviewed to correspond with the current inflation," Mr Ontere told journalists in Kisii Town.
"What was agreed on has been overtaken by events because of the high cost of living. That is why we want the salaries reviewed," he said.
Knut, he said, had prepared its memorandum to be presented to the committee when it meets tomorrow but declined to divulge details.
"I don't want to pre-empt what we have prepared until we discuss it," he said.
Mr Ontere was concerned by the poor education results in Gusii and asked the 11 MPs from the area to meet and chart the way forward.
"We want the MPs to come together and call a stakeholders' meeting to deliberate on where the rain started beating us and where we need to improve," he said.
Elsewhere, a teachers' annual general meeting was turned into a forum to lobby for pay increase, with teachers citing high cost of living.
The teachers want their officials enter into negotiation with the Government for a substantial pay increase saying that other civil servants' pay had been reviewed while teachers had been ignored.
Neglected
"We have not had pay increase for the last 10 years; what we are getting now is an increase of 1997 and we should not be neglected.
"The pay hike for 1997 is now too little due to high cost of living," said the teachers at Mundika Primary School in Busia.
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Mr Fred Ontere, who was speaking during Knut Busia branch AGM, assured the teachers that talks for a pay increase would start on May 14 and appealed for patience.
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