Omboko Milemba confirms teachers received Ksh10K each in Ruto’s meeting
By Mabonga Makhanu, September 16, 2025Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Chairman Omboko Milemba, who also doubles as Emuhaya MP, has confirmed that each teacher was awarded Ksh10,000 after visiting State House.
While appearing on a morning show on a local TV station on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, he stated that the money was meant to reimburse the teachers who had used their own money to travel to State House.
“The transport reimbursement for teachers was Ksh 10,000,” he said.
He went on to defend the move, saying that there was more than just reimbursement, as the teachers discussed a variety of issues, one being capitation, which has been downsized in the recent past.
This was in response to his Kathiani counterpart, Robert Mbui, who termed the event a public baraza, saying that if there were to be any negotiations, they should have been limited to the union heads with the president and not a whole group of 10,000 teachers with Ksh100,000 spent on them in a single day.
Arama’s take on the reimbursement
Nakuru West MP Samuel Arama has also come out to defend the move by the president to reimburse the teachers after their visitation to State House.
The legislator has stated that it was just a good gesture extended by President William Ruto to the attendees.
He went further to slam those linking the reimbursement of Ksh10,000 to teachers as an act of corruption, saying that instead of the president going deep into his pockets by moving around the 47 counties talking to teachers from every county, he decided to call them to State House and hold meetings with them so as to save on expenses, then afterwards give each teacher who had attended a facilitation fee.
He went ahead to state that the money used by the Head of State was drawn from the budgetary allocation to State House meant for the President’s travelling expenditure, which is allocated to him by Parliament.
“It emanates from the State House budget; the president has travelling expenditures; he is supposed to travel to every county. When will it be cheaper, going to each county or inviting the teachers to the State House and reimbursing them? The money was from his travelling expenditure.”