kenya: University lecturers want 2,000 per cent pay raise

Public university lecturers want a salary increment of more than 2,000 per cent. Under the new demand, professors want their monthly pay raised from about Sh40,000 to Sh895,000 while ordinary lecturers want Sh232,000, up from the current Sh12,000. Assistant lecturers, on the other hand, want Sh120,000. The University Academic Staff Union, (Uasu), representing about 6,000 members, says the lecturers want the new demands effected immediately.