By Peter Amos
The move by a section of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) branch officials to oust its Executive Secretary General Mr. Wilson Sossion is ill-advised and suspect.
At a time when the education sector is faced with a myriad of challenges that needs radical solutions, the thought of demanding the removal of Mr. Sossion from the union’s leadership should not have arisen in the first place.
It is in the public domain that since he ascended to the union’s highest seat, Mr. Sossion has been gallant and relentless in his quest to have our teachers’ well-being addressed.
In ensuring that teachers’ remunerations are commensurate with the workload they execute for instance, the union under Sossion has championed the current CBA whose second phase is due. 
This, though not satisfactory, is much more worth, than the peanuts our teachers had been earning in the past-especially the majority in the lower cadre (formerly P1s). There are issues of performance contracting, the Teacher Performance Appraisal and Development (TPAD), and the delocalisation of teachers to far-flung areas away from their home counties – as tailored by the TSC.
These are matters that have and still are causing our teachers sleepless nights.
The unionist has consistently and openly been condemning them, terming them retrogressive and unnecessary at the moment.
Teachers and their families no longer have to worry about their inability to offset huge medical bills arising from being in-patients.
A comprehensive medical scheme that has seen our teachers easily access good medical care in some of the high cost health facilities (under Minet Insurance) was the brainchild of Mr. Sossion.
And the list is endless.
Could it be that his unrelenting quest and determination to have the Kenyan teacher acquire a worthy status in society is what is costing him his position?
Could there be undertones working under cover, with the powers that be, to eliminate the fiery man who has more often than not rubbed shoulders with the government the wrong way, in his quest for a better teaching profession in Kenya?
Or is it a ploy by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), in deregistering him as a teacher (following his nomination as an MP)so as to pave way for his removal and in the end weaken KNUT’s ability to resist the raft of policies it (TSC)wants implemented on teachers?
Nothing really bars Sossion from representing teachers’ interests and articulating their issues as he has been doing, now that he is a nominated MP.
In any case, he stands a better chance to serve the tutors both as a National Executive Committee member of KNUT, and also as a legislator.
Mr. Sossion has made many positive changes and contributions in seeing that Kenyan tutors are better off, just like other civil servants. He does not need the ouster.
