Teachers in North Rift schools threaten to strike over insecurity
Police officers inspect the bullet-riddled Mogil Secondary School bus following an attack by bandits on February 17, 2022 which left the driver dead. Teachers in banditry-prone Kerio Valley have threatened to strike over persistent insecurity in the region.
The fate of hundreds of candidates in the banditry-prone Kerio Valley hangs in the balance after teachers threatened to down their tools over the government’s slow response to the persistent insecurity in the region.
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) have declared that teachers in the North Rift will boycott supervision of the national exams if they are not assured of their safety in the wake of the rising insecurity in the region.
