- Teachers from the North Eastern parts of the country are now demanding the government to give them guns as things are getting bad
- This is following after an incident where suspected bandits engaged in a shout out with the police near Baringo South school
- The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has asked the government to offer paramilitary training for teachers in insecure regions.
KUPPET union officials
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Teachers attached in the North Eastern parts of the country has called on the government to offer paramilitary training and issue them with guns to enhance security.
This follows after an incident where for more than six hours, students of Baringo South laid still on the floors as the security personals which included reinforcements from the Rapid Deployment Unit and police reservists, engaged the armed suspected bandits who had surrounded the institution and the area.
Speaking during this year’s Annual General Assembly, KUPPET officials joined teachers from Isiolo to mark the said day that teachers were consistently being victimized freighted by the Teachers Service Commission to continue working in threatening areas.
National Secretary KUPPET, Edward Obwocha, rounded up the teachers in calling for the issuance of guns and the teachers seemed to agree all at once.
”A teacher cannot protect him or herself with a piece of chalk when attackers are confronting them with guns,” Obwocha stated.
Obwocha continued by condemning the recent move by the Teachers’ Service Commission to interdict teachers who fled from areas in Northern Kenya where their lives were in constant danger.
”Teachers should get paramilitary training and be given guns to protect themselves,” Obwocha insisted.
KUPPET Executive Secretary, Moses Kimwere supported the proposals for teachers to be issued with guns and also adding that paramilitary training with special forces should also be considered.
”Teachers working in Isiolo, in areas like Bassa, Oldonyiro, Merti , Sericho, and Garbatula should be issued with guns because the police have previously shown that they cannot protect them,” said the KUPPET Isiolo’s chairman, Gilbert Wafula.
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