Staff and lecturers of The Technical University of Kenya (Tuk) held peaceful protests in Nairobi on Wednesday over delayed salaries.
The lecturers said they are owed salaries for three months despite pleas to have their monthly pay released.
Led by TUK University Academic Staff Union Secretary General Fred Sawenja, the staff gave the management of the university a notice of seven days to pay them all their areas.
They said should that not happen within the next week, then they will have no option other than downing their tools.
"We are issuing a strike notice for seven days and we are saying there shall be no services if and until you address our issues,'' Sawenja said.
The academic staff and workers at TUK claimed that other statutory deductions have not been remitted to third parties including loan deductions.
"You cannot expect employees of a public university in the central business district to be working for three months and earn a salary fraction for one month,'' Sawenja said.
Jacob Musembi alleged that billions of shillings in retirement deductions have not been remitted to the pension funds administrators.
"Approximately Sh5.3 billion deducted from university staff over the last 15 years cannot be accounted for,'' Musembi claimed.
"We have been deducted money to pay loans but we don't know where that money goes because everybody here is on CRB,.''
The staff presented their petition to Parliament and the National Treasury calling for their rescue.
"We have no money, our children are at home, yet you expect us to teach other children,'' Musembi said.
TUK is the latest institution of higher learning to experience a crisis with most of the public universities reeling in debts and string at strikes by lecturers.
Most universities have been issued with strike notices by academic staff who are planning to go on strike over the failure by the government to implement a CBA signed with them last year.
