Kenya has been hit by another strike by two unions, the University Academic Staff Union (UASU) and the Kenya University Staff Union (KASU).
The lecturers at public universities in the country started an indefinite strike on Thursday demanding better salaries.
Robinson Oduma, the UASU chapter head at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology is quoted by Reuters as saying “Teaching staff are being underpaid and this has gone on for a long time. We want professors to earn what politicians get,”
Mr. Oduma said the lecturers many of whom are Professors want a 400 percent pay increase to bring them into line with Kenyan lawmakers.
The striking lecturers and academic staff are drawn from Kenya’s 33 public universities. They have vowed to stay away from work until their demands are met.
Doctors in Kenya are already on strike and their leaders are finding it difficult to call off the strike that has lasted for more than five weeks now despite a court order for them to return to work.
The striking doctors want a 300 percent pay rise promised to them in 2013.
According to the parliamentary watchdog website Mzalendo, Kenyan lawmakers take home around $11,500 every month with some other allowances.
Source: Africafeeds.com
