He noted that teachers will be visiting banks more often to see if the pay rise has been wired into their bank accounts.
The strike came even as TSC insisted that the strike was illegal and that all tutors must report to class.
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According to the TSC’s Public Relations Officer Kihumba Kamotho, the teachers must allow the legal process to run its course since there was still an appeal pending on the salary increment.
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich has already ruled out any possibility of paying the teachers, saying the government is not able to raise the Sh17 billion required to meet their demands.
The CS explained that the only way to meet the additional expenditure was to increase taxes for Kenyans, a move likely to raise public outcry.
KNUT’s lawyer Paul Muite told Capital FM News that the commission only required Sh1.4 billion to pay teachers their August monies and not Sh17 billion.
He pointed out that the funds can be availed from the Sh18.1 billion allocated to the TSC from the Contingency funds.
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