Nairobi, March 25 -- The Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) says 15,858 teachers were left out of the recent promotions by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).

Knut Deputy Secretary General Hezbon Otieno said the union will this week petition TSC over the matter.

He said the statistics were compiled from a countrywide survey done in the 110 branches, with teachers who were left out volunteering information.

The figures, he said, were computed last Friday.

"Some of the teachers who have qualified for promotion have stagnated in the same positions for over 12 years, yet the commission has undertaken cosmetic promotions that left them out," Mr Otieno said.

Speaking in Bomet during the branch election to replace Mr Malel Lang'at a...