New Year, Same Problems: Lecturers Threaten To Strike Yet Again
— written by Francis on Jan. 8, 2025, 5:39 p.m.
Welcome to 2025, where lecturers plan to welcome students with an extended holiday plan as they issue a notice for yet another strike. This comes at a terrible time because the strike is set to begin on January 15th, which will be in the middle of the end-of-semester exams in some universities. But what's making lecturers return to the street barely a month after the strike was called off on November 23rd?
UASU ISSUES A STRIKE NOTICE
PROMISES BY GOVERNMENT
According to UASU organizing secretary Onesmus Maluki, the government had promised a pay increase to lecturers backdated to October 2024. The increments were supposed to start reflecting in their December paychecks. The Kenyan government did what it does best; dishonor promises, leaving lecturers bamboozled when they saw their salaries had been multiplied by a factor of 1 in December.
PHOTO OF JKUAT
“We agreed that the new salaries would be implemented in December, along with the arrears for October and November, but when we went for Christmas, the new salaries were still not paid,” Maluki said.
As learning in public Universities is threatened to be halted yet again, the question that arises in our minds is, "Does the government really value educating the youth? If so, why make learning so difficult for university students?"
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