Sossion Quits as KNUT Secretary-General to Focus on Politics

Nominated MP Wilson Sossion has stepped down as the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) secretary.

Sossion has resigned from the influential position just a day before the union’s election which is scheduled for Saturday at Ruaraka ground in Nairobi.

“In the interest of KNUT and its membership, I hereby on June 25, 2021, bow out of KNUT and will always be available to advise and support the leadership of the union,” he announced in a press briefing in Nairobi, accompanied by his immediate family members including wife and children.

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“As I exit, I hope the government will support teachers. I am making this appeal. I trust that the government will find it necessary to allow the union money to flow to the teachers,” he added.

Sossion took over as the sixth secretary-general of KNUT in 2013 after the death of David Okuta. In 2017 he was nominated by ODM to represent the interest of teachers in parliament

Sossion in the recent past has not been on good terms with the TSC, which deregistered him as a teacher after he was nominated to the National Assembly.

Sossion has further added that he has outgrown KNUT and wants to fully focus on his political career.

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He has also given an account of his achievement during his time at the Kenya National Union of Teachers, stating that schools performed better during this time compared to the previous KNUT regimes.