By Isaac Biwott
Benard Maiyo has been elected the new Nandi Central KNUT executive secretary.
Maiyo, the former immediate branch KNUT chairman was elected during a by-election presided over by Secretary General Wilson Sosion.
Maiyo, was until his election the head teacher of Township Primary School in Kapsabet town, was elected after trouncing George Rop. Maiyo polled 304 votes while Rop got 132.
The seat fell vacant following the death of Silvester Tallam in April 9th last year after suffering a heart ailment while on a campaign trail for another KNUT national trustee Boniface Tenai.
Tenai was vying for Nandi senatorial post in the Jubilee nominations that was won by Samson Kiprotich Cherargei.
In the post of chairmanship, Henry Ruto won, beating Joseph Maiyo. Ruto polled 254 votes while Maiyo got 191 votes.
The post fell vacant after Benard Maiyo opted to seek the executive position in which he will serve for the next two years till 2020.
There was a low turnout in the by-election that was attended also by the KNUT national Treasurer John Matiang’i.
Sossion warned that KNUT would not hesitate in calling for another national strike over the newly introduced teachers management systems by the Ministry of Education and the Teachers Service Commission-TSC.
Sossion and Matiang’i said Teacher Performance and Appraisal Development- TPAD and National Education Management Information System-NEMIS had reduced teachers to “clerks” spending most of their time filling the forms.
The secretary general noted that the systems had failed in Malaysia, South Africa and Tanzania adding that attempts by Ugandan government to introduce them also flopped.
