At the press briefing, Dr Wasonga disowned the document and accused the IPUCCF of coming up with its own CBA instead of the negotiated one between the two parties.
“Our CBA is Sh9.7 billion and should not be mistaken. It’s the basic salary only. Basic pay was a stop-gap measure. We’re surprised IPUCCF developed their own CBA. A CBA is supposed to be developed by both parties. The strike continues. Let nobody threaten you,” Dr Wasonga said.
Students in public universities will go without being taught for much longer after a meeting convened by the Committee on Education of the National Assembly to resolve the lecturers’ strike ended in disarray—for the second time—after the Inter-Public Universities Councils’ Consultative Forum (IPUCCF) failed to table evidence that the government has allocated money to pay the dons.
When the employer appeared before the MPs on November 5 alongside the Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu), the employer had been asked to provide proof that the government had Sh4.3 billion to pay the lecturers.
