By Our Investigative Reporter

We have learnt the national chairman of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has bribed lawmaker Jakoyo Midiwo with Ksh two million shillings to introduce an amendment bill in parliament to divert the money that was meant to buy laptops for Standard One pupils and pay teachers, a devastating allegation that would cast the head of the teachers union in very diabolical light.

Wilson Sossion, who lives lavishly in a plush Nairobi neighbourhood, delivered Ksh 1.5 million to Midiwo on Wednesday and the rest to be delivered on Thursday, sources said, explaining the move was to embarrass President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto.

“Money is changing hangs. Sossion bribed Midiwo with Ksh two million,” a highly-placed source told the Jackal News. The Kenyatta government had set aside more than Ksh 50 billion to meet its pre-election campaign of delivering laptops to Standard One pupils next year.

Jakoyo, alongside CORD lawmakers like Chris Wamalwa have introduced the Appropriation Bill in parliament compel the government to divert the cash from laptops and teachers. “The people who introduced the bill were bribed to do so.”

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have currently put down their tools demanding the government to pay them salary hikes that go back to a 1997 agreement KNUT reached with the teachers, but was ignored by the governments of Presidents Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki. Legal Notice 534 of 1997 — tasked the government to increase teachers’ hardship, special, house, medical and commuter allowances.