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Kenya: Strike Paralyses Learning At Camp
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The Nation (Nairobi)
13 May 2008
Posted to the web 13 May 2008
Barnabas Bii And Kennedy Masibo
Nairobi
A strike by teachers over non-payment of their salaries has paralysed learning at a camp for internal refugees in Eldoret.
More than 90 teachers at Showground School are demanding Sh408,000 pay.
The school has 677 children in the nursery unit, 2,445 pupils in primary and 510 in secondary sections.
Explain delay
There are 25 teachers who fall under the Teachers Service Commission.
"We have not received any payment since the school was started early this year to accommodate school-going children affected by the post-election violence.
"Concerned authorities should explain the delay," one of the teachers said.
The primary section head teacher, Mr David Karanja, confirmed the strike, regretting that some of the pupils had dropped out of school as a result.
"It is our plea that the teachers resume offering lessons as the go-slow will impact negatively on the smooth learning process," Mr Karanja appealed. Amid the industrial action, the Kenya Pipeline Company donated 5,000 exercise books, diaries and calendars to the school.
Western region KPC manager Kipletting Bitok asked the displaced teachers and pupils to be committed to their work and overcome challenges ahead of the resettlement process.
"As a company, we have a corporate responsibility to donate towards needy cases in society.
"We wish the displaced to be resettled on their farms so that they can resume their normal lifestyles," Mr Bitok appealed.
Donations
He said the company would give similar donations to other schools in western Kenya region.
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Elsewhere, two internal have died of pneumonia. The two, who have been staying at the Nakuru Afraha Stadium camp, died at Rift Valley General Hospital.
The secretary of the camp with more than 1,450 people, Pastor Robert Onyango, said one of the victims had been admitted to the hospital for a week. He died on Sunday.
The other, who had been admitted to the same hospital for three days, died on Monday.
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