Chaos Erupt at KNUT Offices as Members Demand Sossion’s Removal

Chaos’s have erupted today’s morning, 29^th August 2019, at the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) headquarter offices, after officials stormed demanding the removal of embattled secretary-general Wilson Sossion.

The chaos erupted barely hours after the Labor Court issued orders halting plans by the KNUT’s National Executive Council (NEC) to convene a meeting to plan on how to forcefully oust Sossion from the secretary-general office.

Angry officials of the KNUT’s NEC chanted that their meeting would continue and Sossion had to leave the office.

“We are here to reclaim the union, as it’s the union doesn’t belong to the teachers because of the wrangles that have been there, created by the outgoing SG, Wilson Sossion,” one of the officials told Journalists who were on duty.

“We are here to remove Sossion and replace him. He’s no longer a member of KNUT following his deregistration by TSC,” another official said.

A section of teachers in the crowd, however, noted that KNUT was faced by many challenges that included political intrusion and dialogue was the only solution to resolve the problems.

Police are currently at the scene seeking to calm the situation and restore peace in the offices at Nairobi’s Upperhill.

Sossion maintained that KNUT constitution accorded the Council members no powers to convene or proceed with a national executive council meeting that had already been postponed.

“I’m not quitting…I’m not quitting…and I cannot be removed, forget about it, no matter how much money they use, I am not on trial. I will only go home if the delegates say so,” Sossion responded to the KNUT officials calls to vacate the SG office.

Wilson Sossion was deregistered by the Teachers Service Commission because of being a politician as a nominated Member of Parliament and the Labor Court upheld the decision.

Sossion, upon deregistration as a teacher in January last year, termed the decision unfair and unlawful saying the court had breached the TSC Act on its decision.