Lecturers call off crippling strike after State agrees to Sh9b pay rise

UASU Secretary-General Constantine Wasonga, Education CS Julius Ogamba and Higher Education PS Beatrice Inyangala after signing a return-to-work agreement. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Learning will resume in public universities on Monday after unions and the government struck a Sh9 billion deal, ending learners' agony that has kept them out of class for three weeks.

Yesterday, Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba and officials from the University Academic Staff Union (Uasu) signed the deal at the Ministry of Labour offices, bringing smiles to the faces of lecturers and reviving hope among gloomy students.