KNUT annual conference to begin tomorrow in Kisumu

Fredrick Odiero

Over 3,000 Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) delegates will converge in Kisumu on Tuesday, December 13 for a National Delegates Conference (NDC).

Addressing the press at his Kisumu office, KNUT Kisumu Executive Secretary Mr. David Obuon said that the Union’s top national officials will be in attendance and that all arrangements have been finalized ahead of the historic conference.

According to a tentative programme, the delegates will attend a prayer meeting at St. Stephen’s Cathedral Anglican Church at the Milimani area before starting the conference on Wednesday at the Kisumu CITAM Church. The conference will end on Thursday.

Obuon said they expect the conference to address pertinent issues affecting the teaching fraternity among them; the transition from primary to junior secondary schools and who will handle the learners.

He lauded the government for its plans to employ more teachers across the country but argued that they should all be employed on permanent and pensionable terms.

“The issue of interns should neither be here nor there,” he said.

He was flanked by his Assistant, Evans Ogweno and Woman Representative Carol Ombok.

Meanwhile hotels in Kisumu are expecting a boom in their businesses ahead of the conference.