Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Busia branch has expressed their displeasure on the proposed mandatory 3 per cent housing levy pioneered by President Ruto in the Financial Bill 2023.
Addressing the press on May 30, 2023, the branch Executive Secretary Moffats Okisai said that it was unfair for them to be forced to pay the levy yet they cannot sufficiently meet their own needs.
“Teachers have loans and mortgages. They have said no to the plan to add more burdens to them. Let the housing scheme be made voluntary and not compulsory,” he said.
Okisai added: “Our salaries are already in ICU, please listen to these teachers. We know some people do not have payslips, we do not refute that but this is not our fault that we have salaries and others do not. Some of them were lazy. When I work hard I deserve to get something and better my life.”
While the President is determined to pass the Finance Bill, the more than 300, 000 teachers on the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) payroll which makes one of the largest groups of government employees in Kenya have time to time opposed the move saying the government has failed to review their salaries.
By Vostine Ratemo
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