Three
candidates who are competing for the post of the Knut national assistant
treasurer come December have told members to support them based on what
they have done to make their respective branches vibrant and their general
national networking.
Gucha
branch executive secretary Sam Nyairo said he has helped to increase the
membership from 1,500 to 3,000 and the purchase of a bus, a venture of which
the branch is enjoying and efficient coordination between the Teachers Service
Commission and the ministry of Education.
Nyairo
said there was no haphazard transfers and arrest of teachers unlike the
case before owing to the cordial relations between the four district education
officers at Gucha, Kenyenya, Nyamache and Sameta and all MPs and members
of the Kisii county assembly from the area.
But
his Borabu counterpart John Matiang’i says his Borabu branch is the first to
establish a website where they have gone a notch higher to take IT to schools
in the area where teachers and students have benefited.
Matiang’i
maintains that he has a national outlook compared to his two brothers competing
with him in the race and will ensure that the union becomes more vibrant if
elected to the seat.
But
NEC member Geoffrey Mogire, who is a long-serving member and served as the
larger Kisii Knut branch chairman, avers that he has done enough ground
work and was posed to win the seat.
Mogire
says that during his tenure as the Kisii branch chairman, he helped to improve
the membership of teachers joining the union which later gave creation to
Gucha, Kisii South and Gucha South branches with the Kisii branch still
remaining strong base for the teaching profession in the area.
Nyairo
had earlier served as chairman of the Nairobi Mwalimu Savings Credit Society
for 10 years where he was representing the larger Gusii region before he joined
Knut to serve as a BEC member and later, as assistant branch executive
secretary from where he rose to his present position.
Knut
headquarters hinted that Nyairo is likely to get the blessings of the
executive. At least 80 out of the 110 branches throughout the country will
support Nyairo if things will not change from where they are, a source
intimidated.
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