University staff issue two-day strike threat

LECTURERS and other university staff began a nationwide picketing yesterday to protest the failure by the government to honour their pay deal. The workers gave the government a two-day ultimatum to act or else they will turn the picketing into a full-fledged strike. University Academic Staff Union and University Non-Teaching Staff Union officials addressed members at the University of Nairobi’s chancellors square. They accused vice chancellors and Higher Education minister Margaret Kamar of colluding to unnecessarily delay effecting their salary increase...