It does appear that Sossion was getting instructions from Ruto because Uhuru offered the same pay raise to KNUT, but Sossion ostensibly rejected it, actually it was Sh17b, yet Ruto offered Sh16, Sh1b less. Now ladies and gentlemen if you divide this billions amount by the number of teachers it comes down to Sh800 bob per teacher per month. $ 10 a month by whichever currency for those in the diaspora. Cant fuel my fuel guzzler for my one way trip to work, pole walimu. Sossion sacrificed the suffering, hopes, pains and aspirations of an entire teaching force,at the alter of raising the political profile of his Kalenjin tribal leader. That a Teacher’s Union Leader can only listen to his tribesman delivering the same offer, that the President himself had personally offered him, speaks volumes about Kenya’s tribal politics, even when a very important cause like Teacher’s salary and a question like whether teachers should be trained to use tablets etc is on the table. If this is true, then it does appear as though Ruto’s new found strategy is to keep the government in perpetual crises, of which he is the epicenter but which are being executed by his sidekicks and tribesmen like Dualle and Sossion, and then staging stuff so it appears as though he resolved the crises. That’s smart politics because it keeps Ruto relevant, but dumb because it runs the danger of breaking power rules like ‘never outshine your master”, which Ruto has become fond of breaking with impunity. He has to be ‘Vice Presidential” if he is to survive inside the Uhuru circles.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:02:00 +0000
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