KUPPET wants gov’t to respect court order stopping payment of fees via eCitizen

KUPPET Secretary General Akello Misori has said that the union does not oppose technology, but there is need for proper public participation before the plan is implemented.

Speaking after meeting union representatives from Central Kenya in Kirinyaga, Akello said that if the directive is implemented without public participation, students from less fortunate families will not be able to go to school.

The Secretary General said that most of the parents in the rural areas pay school fees in kind where they take agricultural products to school as fees for their children. 

He called on the ministry of education to explain how school fees in kind will be submitted through the eCitizen portal.

Akello also challenged the ministry to be clear on how parents who do casual jobs in schools to pay fees for their children will be able to do so through eCitizen.

The teachers union has also called upon the national treasury to move with speed and gazette trustees to the public service pension scheme saying it has taken longer than is required.

KUPPET Chairman Amboko Milemba said that there is a scheme to mismanage and misappropriate the funds by passing the names presented as trustees by the various unions.

Amboko said the union will not allow the ministry to mismanage the funds saying that they will take action if the names they presented as trustees are not gazetted as soon as possible.