The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) has expressed concern about the safety of 150 Kenyan teacher trainees stuck Tanzania amid a political crisis in the neighbouring country.
According to a statement signed by Kuppet Secretary-General Akelo Misori, some of the teachers have received death threats.
“While a few Kenyan teachers have lost their lives, many more have received death threats for alleged participation in protests. Some have had their post-graduate studies affected by the crisis,” the union said.
“The union urges the Cabinet Secretaries for Education and Foreign Affairs to intervene in the crisis to save the teachers’ lives and education, and in the preservation and repatriation of the bodies of Kenyans who have perished in the clashes.”
This week, a family in Siaya came out to appeal to the government to help to bring home the body of John Okoth Ogutu, a teacher who was killed during the violence that hit parts of Tanzania following the general elections. Mr Ogutu, 33, was a teacher at a private school in Tanzania. He reportedly died at the hands of Tanzanian security officers
About the Author
