Housing PS Charles Hinga was on Thursday forced to abandon his speech after teachers attending the 61st annual delegates conference at Bomas booed him.
Hinga had taken to the podium to enumerate the benefits of government's ambitious housing scheme and why teachers should embrace it.
As soon as he begun his speech, teachers drawn from all regions started to heckle him and wave their hands in protest once the PS mentioned that the scheme was affordable.
"No, no," chants rent the Bomus auditorium, forcing the Knut national chairman Wycliffe Omucheyi to intervene and calm down the irate teachers.
Secretary general Wilson Sossion had to step in after Omucheyi's "order members, order" was ignored and the heckling was taken a notch higher.
"Okay members, this is the principal secretary and he is here as a representative of the government and the message has been communicated," Sossion said.
"However, it's only reasonable that we let him finish the last sentence only."
But teachers would hear none of it.
The affordable housing project is one of the items on President Uhuru Kenyatta's Big 4 agenda that targets to construct 500,000 houses by 2022.
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Under the project, every employee will contribute 1.5 per cent of their gross monthly salary, with the employer making a similar contribution.
In the course of the five years, a total of Sh118 billion is expected to have been raised.
Questions have, however, been raised over the project, including the procedure of allocation of mortgages and units.
According to the government, the subsidised houses will only be sold to persons who earn below Sh100,000.
Higher contributors will not benefit.
A one-bedroom house, will for instance be sold at a maximum of Sh600,000, while a two-bedroom will go for Sh1 million.
"Rest assured that no one will touch your payslips," Sossion told the teachers after they remained adamant in their resolve to reject the scheme.
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