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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