Lecturers in Kenya’s public universities held street protests in Nairobi on Wednesday. They say the government has failed to implement a deal to boost salaries and housing allowances.
A similar strike ended in December last year after union officials said they had reached an agreement with the government but they now say the education ministry has reneged on its word.
At the University of Nairobi’s Graduation Square, defiant lecturers stood hand in hand, vowing to intensify their strike until the country’s education authorities meet their demands.
The strike comes barely three months since the lecturers walked out of lecture halls demanding the implementation of a deal reached in March last year to pay them better salaries and housing allowances.
At stake is the plight of just over half a million government sponsored students in the East African nation’s 31 public universities.
