The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) and Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) aspirants from Trans Nzoia County have turned to politicians for nomination and campaign funds.
According to the aspirants for the Trans Nzoia kuppet branch, most of them had resorted to financial bail-outs from politicians to beat the deadline and promised to support them for their bids for the 2027 General Elections.
“It is in order to seek for funds from politicians to support our campaigns and registration. With our low salaries, I see many of us unable to raise the money and thus being locked out. I would rather ask for assistance than keep silent and leave the union to be led by unpopular officials elected on the bases of money.” Said one female aspirant
This comes amid disquiet in campaigns for the Trans Nzoia Knut polls, which is reported to have taken a lower profile this time round with the outgoing Executive Secretary George Wanjala set to retain the office in the polls that have been predicted to take tribal lineages.
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It is reported that so far, only two aspirants Martin Wafula and Dan Kutai have paid nominations fees for the Kuppet branch executive seat held by Furaha Lusweti who has yet to declare whether or not he will be defending the seat after being in the office for more than 20 years since inception.
Lusweti who is also the MCA of Waitaluk ward together with the branch chairman Eliud Wafula are still entangled in the stalemate of defending their seats in the wake of the High Court order restraining of the application of the old constitution that slammed on aspirants aged 60 not to vie.
It is also alleged that a local MP have invested heavily in one aspirant for the Kuppet executive seat and was also reaching to other aspirants in a bid to alter the branch leadership that has been rotating among one ethnic community.
BY ABISAI AMUGUNE
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