State urged to look into issues raised by intern teachers
Junior Secondary School teachers hold a protest match along the streets of Kakamega town on Tuesday last week calling for interns to be employed on permanent and pensionable terms.
First cohort of interns have had their contracts renewed for one year from February this year.
President William Ruto has stated that his administration has employed 56,000 teachers.
As the nationwide work boycott staged by the 46,000 Junior Secondary School (JSS) intern teachers enters its second week today, unions have rallied behind the teachers while calling on the government to find an amicable way out of the stalemate.
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary-General Collins Oyuu and his Kenya Union of Post Primary Education (Kuppet) counterpart Akelo Misori have warned that the strike risked paralysing learning in Grades Seven and Eight.
