| Published Sun, January 21st 2018 at 00:00, Updated January 20th 2018 at 23:23 GMT +3Code of Regulations dictate that teachers who seek elective posts and hold trade union positions must retire from service [File| Standard]The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has de-registered top officials of the teachers' unions who have joined politics. The Commission this week wrote to the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary General Wilson Sossion and Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) chairman Omboko Milemba, informing them that they are no longer teachers. Sossion is an ODM Nominated MP, while Milemba is Emuhaya MP, a seat he won on the Amani National Congress party ticket. In the gazette notice, she intended that Milemba, Sossion and Union of Kenya Civil Servants Secretary General Tom Odege would relinquish their positions for a new crop of leaders to take over. Sossion then replied saying that his nomination by ODM was meant to represent workers in Parliament.

Source: Standard Digital January 20, 2018 21:00 UTC