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Wrangles jolt Knut as Sossion gets a taste of own medicine

From left)Hesbon Agola Otieno acting secretary general of KNUT,Wyclifee Omucheyi chairman and James Ndiku director national trustee,addressing press on 5th May 2018 at Kenya national union of teacher(KNUT)office in Nairobi

The vicious war over leadership at the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) has once again highlighted the power struggles in trade union politics that revolves around personalities.

As Nominated MP Wilson Sossion continues to hold on to his Secretary General post, he is following a path taken by present and former trade union leaders who owe their positions to bare knuckle politics.

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