By Enock Okong’o
Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has asked the Azimio la Umoja coalition to postpone the planned mass demonstration on Monday for the sake of learners who will be reporting back to school on the same day.
Speaking in Kisii town, the branch Executive Secretary, Joseph Abincha wondered about the safety of the students, asking the planners of the nationwide demonstrations to postpone as it coincides with the day when learners will be returning to school from the mid-term break.
“I appeal to the planners to postpone the demo on Monday to allow a peaceful travel of our children to school,” he said.
Abincha told students to keep off the demonstartions because if anything happened during the demonstrations, it was usually the youth, children and old women who suffer as casualties.
Close observation from Kisii and Nyamira County revealed confusion among the residents whether the public demonstrations will only take place in Nairobi.
At some point, one principal lamented that there are several requests from people who want to hire the school bus in order to travel to Nairobi to participate in the demonstrations.
“I would not lend the school bus out to transport people who were going to demonstrate against the government that bought the bus for us,” the principal said.
Other principals who talked to Education News castigated the countrywide demonstrations planned but Raila Odinga saying if they continue they are likely to disturb the student’s learning process.
They called for peaceful dialogue between President Ruto and the opposition leader Raila Odinga.
