Armed police officers were on stand-by at the headquarters’ entrance to deal with any confrontation between the union officials and supporters of Mr Sossion. “I want to assure teachers across the country that there is no crisis; we are intact and members will be served even better with our new secretary-general,” Mr Omucheyi said. He has been removed because of contradicting decisions made by NEC, dishonesty and incompetence,” Mr Omucheyi said. “As far as trustees are concerned and further advised by the registrar of labour, our Secretary General is Hesbon Otieno,” Mr Gitari said. Despite the ouster claims, Mr Sossion has maintained that he is still the bona-fide secretary general of Knut.

Source: Daily Nation May 05, 2018 08:55 UTC