By Our Reporter
Nyeri County Assembly majority leader, James Kanyugo, has called on KNUT and KEPSHA to come together and oppose the transfer of their officials in the ongoing head teachers’ delocalisation exercise.
Kanyugo, who was also the branch KNUT treasurer before joining politics in 2017, termed the transfer of union officials from the county as ‘persecution’.
He spoke to the Education News in Nyeri town recently. He is now the Mahiga ward MCA in Othaya.
“It is very unfair to move elected leaders from their electoral area. When you move for example the chairman of KNUT that will lead to a by-election, how sure are we that the person who will be elected will be retained there,” posed Kanyugo.
He was reacting to the recent transfer of the county KEPSHA chairman Nicholas Gathemia and area KNUT chairman Patrick Karinga.
Gathemia was transferred from Nyamachaki Primary school in Nyeri to a school in Meru County while Karinga was also transferred to Meru from Miagayu-ini Primary School.
Over 60 teachers have been transferred from Nyeri County since TSC started the exercise.
Kanyugo said teachers should be mobilised and call for industrial action so that education stakeholders can sit down and come up with a way forward.
