Nairobi, Jan. 7 -- The management of Egerton University has finally agreed to pay lecturers their full salaries from January 31.

The more than 600 dons had planned to down tools on January 8 after the management said the university had no money.

This means that the cash-strapped university will have to find more than Sh4 billion annually to keep the dons in the lecture halls.

The University Academic Staff Union (Uasu) issued a strike notice in December, saying that its members would down tools.

Last week, however, Uasu held a crisis meeting with the university's management, which agreed to resume full salary payments.

The lecturers have been receiving 60 per cent of their salaries since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, while ot...