Moi University lecturers, workers hold protest over delayed salaries, failed CBA agreements

Moi University lecturers and other workers staged fresh demos in Eldoret City on Wednesday demanding payment of delayed salaries and implementation of Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA).

The more than 4,000 workers marched through the streets to the Uasin Gishu County Assembly where they presented a petition to Speaker Phillip Muigei and the MCAs.

UASU branch deputy Secretary Nyabuta Ojuki said none of their demands had been met despite the unions calling off the strike last week after signing a return-to-work formula with Vice-chancellors.

Ojuki said the university pension scheme had collapsed due to the non-remittance of more than Ksh.5.5 billion deducted from their salaries by the university management.

Speaker Muigei said he had received the petition from the workers and would do whatever to deal with the issues and escalate others to the national government.

He said they would take up the matter because the workers were residents of Uasin Gishu, taxpayers in the county and also voters in the region.

UASU chapter secretary Wekesa Busolo asked President William Ruto to intervene in the challenges facing the university before it collapses.

He said there was a need for the appointing authority to act on the management of the university where all operations had been paralyzed for over two months without any action.

Busolo said the university was keeping students at the main campus and other colleges yet no learning was going on.

KUSU branch secretary Mary Chepkwemoi said they would carry out protests in Nairobi because their pleas and protests in Eldoret had been ignored.