Quit Northern Kenya, Sossion Tells Unsafe Teachers

KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion called on the teachers working in the Northern part of Kenya to ensure that their jobs do not compromise their right to life as guaranteed by the Constitution of Kenya.

Sossion accused the government of being insensitive when it fired the over 1,000 teachers who refused to go back to Mandera after 37 of their colleagues were massacred by militia.

“When we advised our teachers not to report back to schools in Mandera early this term the Teachers Service Commission and government functionaries relying on imaginary security measures responded by firing all the 1,043 teachers and masterminded condemnation against our position,” said Sossion.

Turn college to a security installation for police

KNUT further called for a permanent closure of the Garissa University College and immediate transfer of surviving students to other universities and the facility converted to a security one.

“After the closure of the University we advice the State to turn the institution into a security installation and maybe hand it over to the police for purposes of their own training,” added Sossion.

“Similarly we have information that Garrissa Teachers Training College may have survived the attack because they closed a day earlier. We advice that the college should not be reopened in May but instead it be handed over to the military for them to use it as training base for their own further studies,” said the KNUT Secretary General.