Kenya: Wetang’ula Offers to Mediate Teachers’ SHA Dispute as Strike Threats Persist

The National Assembly Speaker, Moses Wetang’ula, has announced plans to intervene in the ongoing dispute between teachers and the government over the Social Health Authority (SHA) medical scheme in a bid to avert a looming crisis in the education sector.

This comes as the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has given the government a two-week timeline of up to April 8, when they are set to meet to chart the way forward and weigh whether the recent agreement has been fully implemented…