​Members of Parliament have been asked to reinstate over sh. 30 billion they have deducted from allocations to county governments. 

Speaking in Kericho on Thursday, Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) secretary general Wilson Sossion said that they will not rest as a union till the devolved units are allocated Sh 320 billion more.

Sossion said that KNUT supports devolution and reading from the same page with the county governments adding that the national assembly seems compromised andineffective. 

“ We are giving an ultimatum of seven days for MPs to reinstate the funds failure to which they will mobilize for actions against the national assembly,” warned Sossion.

The KNUT secretary general also said that allocation to counties is within the spirit of devolution in the constitution and they should know that the funds allocation belongs to the people.

Sossion who was speaking at Kericho Day Secondary School during the signing of Memorandum of Understanding between KNUT and the County government of Kericho for more than 1,200 ECDE teachers in the county who joined the union.

He said that ECDE has been neglected for long and the signing of an MOU with the county government of Kericho detailing capacity building and even infrastructure in Kericho County is an historic day in the education sector.

The SG also appreciated the county government of Kericho for putting up state of the art ECDE schools across the county.

After the signing of the MOU, Kericho governor Paul Chepkwony made a commitment that he will respect the labor laws.