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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 8, 2013 21:25:43 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 8, 2013 21:30:07 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 9, 2013 21:35:53 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 16, 2013 22:59:21 GMT 3
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Jul 17, 2013 18:12:23 GMT 3
The government must now crack the whip, www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/1917840/-/vnk044z/-/index.html I am a mwalimu yes, but the manner in which KNUT has approached this strike has left a lot to be desired. Instead of dealing with teachers' issues KNUT has made a very conscious decision to fight KUPPET instead at the expense of the teachers' welfare and the welfare of the kids and the nation as a whole. Something needed to be done urgently, I am glad someone in government is thinking. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Jul 17, 2013 18:50:37 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 17, 2013 19:49:32 GMT 3
I know you are a Headmaster in blood, and your instincts are to side with authority of the TSC! But now that you are @nyumbakubwa you do not have to be over disingenuous! 1. Kaimenyi closed down all primary schools while Ruto was in a meeting with KNUT executive council. Do you know what that means? apart from the fact that there is no union government policy? But here is the truth why I maintain an element of respect for William Ruto. He tends to have a clear perception of political danger, and can recognise the futility of bravado. You see Kaimenyi's sacking of 240,000 teachers exposes a clueless administration, and effectively throws the educational sector in its worst crisis ever. It was Obvious the National exams would not happen in November as this thing escalates, and with men like Raila outside, and ICC cases commencing, the governmental dissaray would be complete. And yet state-House was hell bent on the conflict which could bring it down. Ruto had to move to save the administration, while Kaimenyi, his senses gone, had no option but to close down all primary schools. Really Uhuru Kenyatta wouldn't last a month without William Ruto and his fire-brigade 'night meetings'. But it is true we teachers too have been feeling the heat of the parents who started to ask how much of our hardline was due to 'greed' to join the 'Mpigs' and top bureaucrats in raping Wanjiku, aka the taxpayer! Ugonjwa wa tumbo kubwa kumeshika wafanyi kazi was serikali wote, kulingana na mfuano ulionyeshwa na wanabunge na kadhalika!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 17, 2013 19:58:53 GMT 3
The government must now crack the whip, www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/1917840/-/vnk044z/-/index.html I am a mwalimu yes, but the manner in which KNUT has approached this strike has left a lot to be desired. Instead of dealing with teachers' issues KNUT has made a very conscious decision to fight KUPPET instead at the expense of the teachers' welfare and the welfare of the kids and the nation as a whole. Something needed to be done urgently, I am glad someone in government is thinking. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ Professor 'Zero'! closing schools while Ruto is cutting a deal to save the day! NB: Linet Aluoch Pamba, a benga artist, made a hit-song: Baba Zero. 'Ng'at ma luongi baba be pok one! wewe baba zero!' -No soul on earth has ever set eyes on another soul that calls you daddy! You are baba 0!The phrase [something zero] spread like wildfire in common dholuo use! imaginatively bent to cover No Money = Zero love.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Jul 17, 2013 20:13:33 GMT 3
The government must now crack the whip, www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/1917840/-/vnk044z/-/index.html I am a mwalimu yes, but the manner in which KNUT has approached this strike has left a lot to be desired. Instead of dealing with teachers' issues KNUT has made a very conscious decision to fight KUPPET instead at the expense of the teachers' welfare and the welfare of the kids and the nation as a whole. Something needed to be done urgently, I am glad someone in government is thinking. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ Professor 'Zero'! closing schools while Ruto is cutting a deal to save the day Jakaswanga, The so called deal that KNUT claims to have agreed to today is no different in letter and word from what they had agreed to last Saturday. The allowances are exactly what KUPPET signed with the government with the only difference being, their payment was scaled down from three to two installments to accommodate KNUT. KNUT later turned around and rejected it on Sunday, only to re-accept it today. The closure of primary schools was no doubt the last straw that broke the camel's back. The politics and implications of it all must have send KNUT into a spin, it also made sure that the government had an upper hand in any negotiations with KNUT henceforth. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 17, 2013 22:36:00 GMT 3
Professor 'Zero'! closing schools while Ruto is cutting a deal to save the day Jakaswanga, The so called deal that KNUT claims to have agreed to today is no different in letter and word from what they had agreed to last Saturday. The allowances are exactly what KUPPET signed with the government with the only difference being, their payment was scaled down from three to two installments to accommodate KNUT. KNUT later turned around and rejected it on Sunday, only to re-accept it today. The closure of primary schools was no doubt the last straw that broke the camel's back. The politics and implications of it all must have send KNUT into a spin, it also made sure that the government had an upper hand in any negotiations with KNUT henceforth. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ If that is true, then this is a bandage that will start bleeding soon. Because the legality of the 1997 agreement, the legality of the 2003 'revision', are still left hanging. In your opinion, Mmkuu, are those earlier agreements now null and void. Note this statement from Ruto: structures are being put into place so that agreements signed by earlier governments become permanent. ---This was an unnecessary statement BECAUSE this is the DEFAULT case! That is, deals signed by the dead kenyatta one with the World Bank on behalf of Kenya, did not become null and void when the Mzee died. No, we are still exporting capital through our noses paying interest rates thence!Ruto's statement must then be understood as a correction on the stupidity of his old pal Kazungu Kambi, who intimated in public, that deals signed in yester years between KNUT and whoever, will not be honoured by the present government.An electrifying feat in ignorance. About the doctrine of the continuity of responsibility. I believe the current pope 'apologised' recently for the excesses of the 'crusades'! ---Thousand or so years late! I understand Kazungu Kambi is studying for a degree at Moi. I got some selected readings for him on this subject. Ruto has already gone through them apparently, and passed by internalisation! Next! should be professor 'Zero' Kaimenyi going redux!
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Post by einstein on Jul 18, 2013 5:22:07 GMT 3
Now, that is what I call 'micro-management' by a 'popularly elected' President and his deputy! what a farce!! Must it always take Uhuru and Ruto to personally intervene in every Tom, Dick and Hurry problem facing the nation? I thought the president and his deputy have better issues to address than to micro-manage every sh!t!!
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Jul 18, 2013 7:35:11 GMT 3
Now, that is what I call 'micro-management' by a 'popularly elected' President and his deputy! what a farce!! Must it always take Uhuru and Ruto to personally intervene in every Tom, Dick and Hurry problem facing the nation? I thought the president and his deputy have better issues to address than to micro-manage every sh!t!! Einstein,I know you are one of the very many disappointed clueless CORD adherents who had wanted this strike to go on forever. The buck always stops with the president, and from where I sit, UhuRuto have handled this strike in the best way ever. Plus, if you read the report keenly, you must have realized that it is actually the KNUT guys who went looking for Ruto. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by einstein on Jul 18, 2013 13:37:22 GMT 3
Now, that is what I call 'micro-management' by a 'popularly elected' President and his deputy! what a farce!! Must it always take Uhuru and Ruto to personally intervene in every Tom, Dick and Hurry problem facing the nation? I thought the president and his deputy have better issues to address than to micro-manage every sh!t!! Einstein,I know you are one of the very many disappointed clueless CORD adherents who had wanted this strike to go on forever. The buck always stops with the president, and from where I sit, UhuRuto have handled this strike in the best way ever. Plus, if you read the report keenly, you must have realized that it is actually the KNUT guys who went looking for Ruto. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ Eti, it is the KNUT guys who went looking for Ruto! Spin me another one please, but not this one. You want to tell me that the KNUT fellows did not know where to find Ruto the whole of the last three weeks? Yeah, I enjoy laughing my a.s.s. off watching Uhuruto play 'kalongolongo' in the management of the affairs of the country and thereby hopping and limping from one crisis to the next! Just give them two more weeks after the end of the teachers' strike and the next crisis is in the offing.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Jul 18, 2013 17:12:12 GMT 3
Einstein,I know you are one of the very many disappointed clueless CORD adherents who had wanted this strike to go on forever. The buck always stops with the president, and from where I sit, UhuRuto have handled this strike in the best way ever. Plus, if you read the report keenly, you must have realized that it is actually the KNUT guys who went looking for Ruto. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ Eti, it is the KNUT guys who went looking for Ruto! Spin me another one please, but not this one. You want to tell me that the KNUT fellows did not know where to find Ruto the whole of the last three weeks? Yeah, I enjoy laughing my a.s.s. off watching Uhuruto play 'kalongolongo' in the management of the affairs of the country and thereby hopping and limping from one crisis to the next! Just give them two more weeks after the end of the teachers' strike and the next crisis is in the offing. They all along thought it was business as usual, but after the three weeks, they realized there is a new sheriff in town. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 31, 2013 19:16:56 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 31, 2013 19:23:50 GMT 3
Belio Kipsang, education principal secretary in the Uhuruto government, set the ball rolling. --it sure is going to be a season of choices have consequences for the nation! Moving on may just become impossible. www.nation.co.ke/News/No-July-pay-Education--PS-now-tells-teachers--/-/1056/1928992/-/1nx674z/-/index.htmlUASU, in addition to the non-academic staff union, too have issued a strike warning, not to mention the turmoil in the health ministry, with nurses and docs mobilising. The government will have to sack the whole civil service. But could just get sacked itself if contemplates that! One can not run a government by 'hustling'! There will have to be coherence.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Jul 31, 2013 19:53:59 GMT 3
Belio Kipsang, education principal secretary in the Uhuruto government, set the ball rolling. --it sure is going to be a season of choices have consequences for the nation! Moving on may just become impossible. www.nation.co.ke/News/No-July-pay-Education--PS-now-tells-teachers--/-/1056/1928992/-/1nx674z/-/index.htmlUASU, in addition to the non-academic staff union, too have issued a strike warning, not to mention the turmoil in the health ministry, with nurses and docs mobilising. The government will have to sack the whole civil service. But could just get sacked itself if contemplates that! One can not run a government by 'hustling'! There will have to be coherence. On this one Jakaswanga, the dynamic duo are grossly out of order and Sossion is right to take them head-on. The government has already extended the semester for schools that are believed to have been affected by the recently concluded strike (majority assumed to be primary schools), yet the same government wants to deny the teachers their pay for July. It just does not make sense at all. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by OtishOtish on Jul 31, 2013 20:14:26 GMT 3
Here comes Sonko with a big stick!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 31, 2013 20:53:32 GMT 3
Here comes Sonko with a big stick! This guy used to be called money-bags! where did the money go!? i expect him to solve the problem by throwing money at it! 'kama walimu wanatake pesa ndiye wafundishes watoto wetu, basi pesa ndiye huu ---Rotich kuja hapa! you are the best example that elimu pays! so pay these Knutters whatever they want!' That is the sonko who would do. But these one of secret meetings in hotels with NISS cameras rolling? that one is another gharbage hustler! A toy of fate.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 31, 2013 21:01:48 GMT 3
On this one Jakaswanga, the dynamic duo are grossly out of order and Sossion is right to take them head-on. The government has already extended the semester for schools that are believed to have been affected by the recently concluded strike (majority assumed to be primary schools), yet the same government wants to deny the teachers their pay for July. It just does not make sense at all. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ MwalimuMkuu [or is it ex now?] Ever since the right to strike was enshirined in the constitution, it is not that easy that an industrial court can just declare a strike illegal, and that ruling be used as 'no service rendered, no remunerations, aka salary'. There is a procedure at the union's leadership too, to be honoured. Together with the protection from direct dismissal on striking for workers, this right to continued pay during a strike is one of the greatest victories of unionism in the history of labour struggles. There were days it was: you strike, you are dead! and not just for black slaves only! Some people may not know the terrors that went into this 'renaissance model' of RIGHTS, even to pay during a strike!When industrial workers were dismissed on strikes ---unions or not, a time came they just burnt down the whole premise, bankrupting both themselves and the capitalist. The Juli pay is not a privillege. It is a right, and when government appointees start trashing rights, they are of course asking for the full-fledge thrust of renaissance! Bellio Kipsang, perhaps a political novice!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 5, 2013 19:51:37 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/News/Teachers+to+get+withheld+July+pay/-/1056/1937900/-/99xik7z/-/index.html Must everything always come back to a PERSONAL intervention of President or his deputy? Or is it by design a personalised duo presidency? I am not amused. Because government is too large, and her conflicts too nefarious to always must he handled personally by the two principals. There are structures for conflict resolution ---in theory then in Kenya! Nevertheless, I have more often than not on this august forum, warned the son of Jomo, that he should quickly intergrate, and resolve the multi-personality complex which so manifestly comes to the fore, when one compares his choices as a private citizen, to those he makes as head of state [or occupier of high public office.] When it is his individual fate, as in the management of the Kenyatta family business fortune, or the ICC hounding by whoever they may be, Mr. Kenyatta leaves no stone unturned in the search for the best of the best. If they are London Qcs, so be it; if they are London-based cut-throat PR buros, so be it, Mr. Kenyatta will find them and hire them and afford them. Cost what it cost. But when it comes to running public affairs, either as leader of the opposition --yes he once was; or minister of finance, which he was in the GCG together with Local government; or now as president, Mr. Kenyatta's mind collapses in itself and he surrounds himself with rejects from every selection process.It is like in public office, Mr. Kenyatta is possessed of a suicide wish. He wants to do everything to fail. And because of the incompetence of his team, he can never move on from any subject, it always comes back to him, and forces him, through cumbersome incompetence of his appointees, to rule by decree. Which in modern times we call 'CONFUSIONISM'! --Bareaucrats sit idle or mile aimless in office waiting for the directive from the highest top! Uhuruto! For you never know when your own initiative will be trashed in public by the dynamic duo on whatever latest whim! So too, today in a case I want to study as a test-tube case of law of Murphy. 1. The president has issued a directive that the withheld July salaries of teachers be released, and actually, had already been released after his tete-a-tete with the KNUT high command at Nairobi Ikulu. Preconditions and all.This means hardliners prof. Zero KaimenyI and Juha-Kalulu Kazungu Kambi were toads trying to croak as frogs when they went ----NO WORK NO PAY! REPORT OF GET SACKED ALL! And Bellio Kipsang, the TSC and the Serem thing? Next time we teachers will tell them they are too junior for us to negotiate with! We go direct to State House! Now, let us take a closer look at the labour secretary Kazungu Kambi. And his own work ethics. Ask: how on earth was he head-hunted, vetted line-one and passed up to the top? He is a conman and a swindler, and we will map MAVULTURES CASE LATER. But first. ========================== And that failure to file an appearance or defence within the prescribe period, has led to this 'conviction'. www.nation.co.ke/News/Kambi-ordered-to-pay-bank-Sh304m/-/1056/1936284/-/jp7uwpz/-/index.html Earleir on, MAVulture.com did not mince words about the swindler Uhuruto had recruited. mavulture.com/kazungu-kambi-go-getter-reported-swindled-fame-power/ This is the kind of ethically challenged, morally stunted U-Po-Kyin who was lecturing Sossion and KNUT about compliance with the rule of law?! And if your name is Tom Odongo, and you have repute as an ambitious high-performance city CEO of a rich kitty, and for all that this is the kind of goon who dismisses you like you are his shamba boy, then well, you must have known it is a ''patronage job'' running on rewarding clientelism. Then every occupant, however golden, will be a shamba-boy with casual rights. Well, these days of the new constitution, one were to be afraid even of shouting at the maid. Kazungu Kambi. Why would a young president who wants to make a mark on the history of his country --- wants to industrialise it up-speed, hire such a goon to the LABOUR DOCKET? Labour, in its totality, is the fuel of production and productivity, the generator of wealth. I think I would need an extraordinary person of vision in that department, if I wanted things organised such that the GDP gallops unprecedented. As it is, Ouru hired a comedian, and now he has to sideline him in a major decision, effectively a humiliation, after the said goon Juha puffed himself silly all over town spewing venom at the most articulate union in state. Yawa!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 10, 2015 9:48:32 GMT 3
While the elite of the whole nation is occupied elsewhere with the funeral of a prince, one of their own, there is a major dispute in the country breaking down the launch of the first semester in secondary and primary schools. THE TEACHERS' STRIKE. But that is an old story! www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/kenyan-teachers-to-strike-from-january-5th JANUARY 9 2015Kenyan Teachers defy Government Intimidation
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 10, 2015 9:59:33 GMT 3
Sefine illegal! Here is columnist Peter Kimani from the sidelines www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000147169/rotich-is-right-there-is-no-point-in-talking-all-the-time The deeper problem is the public wage-bill. But when the Mpigs bothe in the 10th and 11th parliament awarded themselves 1000% public-robbery-rates increaments, walking over the treaury like it were the biblic promised 'your garden to wander as you wish', and the treasury abandoned post like rats before a big cat, what remains is chaos. And Uhuruto are too busy elsewhere to mind state finances! so we teachers love our strikes. There is a new bill clause which prevents the auditor general from looking into security budgets!? ponder the implications after UK's public breakdown, becrying the corruption in that sector! www.nation.co.ke/news/New-Bill-bars-release-of-Auditor-Generals-dossier-on-security/-/1056/2570992/-/yjfk8cz/-/index.htmlyOU Spend my money and you do not want to disclose what you spending it on!? For the generation of Kamuzu Banda, Mobutu Sese Seko, Jaffar Numeiry ...Houmphouet Boigny ... that will pass. In 2015 Africa you know you are looking at a useless head of state. Wrong adjective? anybody offer me a more appropriate one! But here is the clue b6k called it a military chokehold on security-related dockets! I said, they are holding the president elect Hostage! And now they want a law which does not say what they are spending public money on! -GAME OVER! And we teachers we want penny tatu agreed ten years ago and BAAAM! You are fired! Yawa!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 1, 2015 21:02:11 GMT 3
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Post by kamalet on Jul 2, 2015 9:43:40 GMT 3
As a lawyer told me yesterday, judicial activism has been taken to another level. The fact that a judge is now able to 'award salary increases' just goes to show the how badly we are being served by the judiciary. As if the judge lives in Mars and the rest of the country in Kenya, there is complete ignorance of the law! Unlike damages in a suit, we are talking about wages for public servants that have not been provided for in the budget which means that unless Parliament makes amendments to the law, no funds can be made and I do not think the judiciary is legally able to revise the financial expenditure of the government. The second problem I see with the activist (note the missing H) judge is the notion that the SRC has no role in determining the salaries of Public Officer with the spurious view that the TSC is the one mandated to determine teacher salaries!!
I am ALL for the better remuneration of teachers and support efforts to increase their pay. But I highly doubt that a 50-60 percent salary increment is something that any employer should be made to pay to an employee without any consideration of the prevailing circumstances and even worse backdating the payment to two years with an order of immediate implementation!
For a country with a bloated wage bill with no one willing to give up their own perks, it seems the only solution is to increase taxes by about the same percentage if the government is to meet the cost of all the wastage we see!
Kamale
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