• The 13 had signed a petition to TSC chief executive officer Nancy Macharia congratulating her for stripping Sossion from his role as a teacher.
• Sossion said they would get an opportunity to defend themselves during the next annual delegates conference next year.
Knut secretary general Wilson Sossion has suspended 13 executive branch officials for staging a coup against him in June.
The branch top officials have been replaced by their assistants who have already received direction to take over the offices.
Sossion's relationships with the Ministry of Education and Teachers Service Commission has been frozen since his nomination as an ODM MP representing trade unions.
Among those shown the door included Eastern region executive secretary Daniel Wambua, Michael Muna (Kiambu West in Central) and Ednah Mutinda of Mbooni branch.
Others are Tom Ngwengwele (Kaloleni, Coast), Stanley Mutai (Kericho), Boniface Tenai (Nandi East), John Wesonga Luta (Mumias), Gilbert Owuor (Bondo), Lucy Bwari (Gucha) and Abdi Adan of Mombasa.
Caxton Mlungi (Meru), Moses Masika (Bungoma) and Zachary Wanjau (Nyeri) were also showed the door.
Nandi East executive secretary Boniface Tenai also lost his position as the Knut national trustee to Wilson Kemboi in acting capacity.
The 13 had signed a petition to TSC chief executive officer Nancy Macharia congratulating her for deregistering Sossion as a teacher.
The executive secretaries, who had met in Nyeri on June 11, were protesting the decision by the Kenya National Union of Teachers official to accept a political nomination.
They had argued that Sossion had allied himself with the Orange Democratic Movement, a move that would put the teaching professionals in an awkward position.
“Knut has no political inclination as it is a professional trade union whose membership is drawn from various political groupings,” the petition then noted.
The secretaries had also claimed that Sossion incited branch officials to disrupt Competence-Based Curriculum training in various regions, a move in which those involved were disciplined by TSC.
“Some have even died while others are suffering in their rural homes while the person who asked them to disrupt is enjoying,” the petition noted.
The group had asked TSC to scrap online invalidation, a move that saw thousands of teachers exit the union denying it huge financial support.
However, Sossion - while cracking the whip on the renegade officials - said they would get an opportunity to defend themselves during the next annual delegates conference next year.
Edited by R.Wamochie