Kenya: Teachers Strike and Trying to Blame the Constitution

18 September 2015
opinion

In 1997 the government made a deal to increase the pay of Kenya's chronically underpaid teachers. It was only partially implemented. As a result, especially at times of political vulnerability for the incumbent administration, like elections and now at the start of every new school year, strikes by our teachers have become a normalized.

The current government complains it doesn't have Sh17 billion to implement the pay rise that the Supreme Court has legitimated much in the same way that the election that brought the current regime into power was legitimised.

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