The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has served 5000 teachers with letters to embark disciplinary action over the ongoing strike.
Those who have been affected are mainly head teachers and their deputies whom the TSC has accused of desertion of work, insubordination and negligence of duty.
In the letter, the employer (TSC) expects those served with the letters to respond within 14 days.
The Commission and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) have been in an unending battle over teacher's pay rise which the TSC is yet to honour despite the court ruling in favour of teachers.
KNUT's Secretary General Wilson Sossion emphatically stated that teachers were ready for any eventuality even if it meant they were all sacked. He has asked the TSC to be ready to write over 200,000 letters because teachers would not go back to work until they were paid.
TSC has so far interdicted two teachers who stormed Chavakali High School for causing disruption at the institution.
Here is the letter:
