This archive report was first published on 20 September 2019.
On September 20, 2019, the Employment and Labour Relations Court ordered the police to provide security to Wilson Sossion, the embattled Secretary-General of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut), to access the union's offices in Nairobi.
The court's decision came after Sossion sought urgent protection to access the Knut offices on Mfangano Street, which he had been locked out of earlier in the year.
The leadership wrangles at Knut have intensified, with Sossion facing pressure from some members of the National Executive Council (NEC) to quit following a fallout with the Teachers Service Commission and senior teachers over the execution of the Sh54 billion 2017-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Another Employment and Labour Relations Court judge, Justice Hellen Wasilwa, is set to issue a ruling next week on whether Sossion will be thrown out of office or not.
