Nairobi, March 9 -- A teachers' union is demanding the elevation of at least 123,000 members who were locked out for lack of funds in the just concluded promotions by their employer.

The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) Friday said it is pushing the State to allocate more funds to promote the remaining teachers.

"We are now pushing the government and Parliament to allocate more funds to promote the remaining teachers," said Kuppet Secretary-General Akello Misori, estimating that the number of teachers left out was about 130,000.

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) promoted some 36,000 teachers in the recently concluded exercise.

But this was greeted with discontentment in the teaching fraternity.

But TSC cite...