Thursday, 18 July 2013

KNUT is quickly becoming a pawn in a political chess game in Kenya.





Permit me, beautiful people, to comment on the scourge that the teachers strike is quickly degenerating into.
The ongoing teachers strike is causing ripples and ruffling feathers in the murky world of politics. There have been political undertones from various quarters that the strike is strategically poised to humiliate the Government. The union leadership have come out to vehemently deny this but who knows, politics is a game of ‘do me I do you’.  This promises to spiral out of control as the government has clearly indicated that there are several third forces beyond their control who are determined to ensure they do not achieve, at whom the Union is acting at their whims. This makes KNUT a pawn in a political chess game, the pawn fights while the kings rest.
KNUT should organize a strike with the public interest at its core so as to harvest from the low hanging fruits of public sympathy to make parents, children, NGO’s and other stakeholders  take to the streets with them. It is only this way that the government will be forced to a corner and bend to their demands, otherwise what they are doing is reminiscent of a child’s play full of weasel words and smoke, it will not move even a single soul in government.
In the strike, the teachers union should demand the construction of more schools, betterment of existing learning facilities, hiring of more teachers, increasing Education budget and lastly talking about the teachers pay raise.
I shudder to think that the education of our children is being subjected to the absurd theatre of politics. An illiterate nation is a weak nation built on quick sand sinking into abyss. The Secretary for Education has already sacked teachers twice but who sacks an employee who is not heeding the call? The government must not dither on this but move with pace to end this charade instead of chest thumping, showing ‘masigwembe’ and ‘mabiceps’ , we already know ‘youtube ina stream vipoa’ as the safaricom advert puts it.

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