@koske_felix just to tell you the 2017 CBA was not signed in darkness. Maybe your Deputy @GovernorNanok has forgotten to tell you he witnessed it's signing. Until the threats stop the #DoctorsStrikeKE will continue. Respect the CBA stop chest thumping. #SayNoToSalaryReduction
News just reaching our desk is that @KmpdcOfficial finally called the quack drs hired by @kutrrh for a peer review before being licensed.ALL FAILED EXCEPT ONE!To imagine that these were the people who were going to be entrusted with our cancer patients is chilling to say the least.Afya bora sio bora afya! @OliveMugenda must retire because it looks like she is now playing PR with our patients' lives! #DoctorsStrikeKE @citizentvkenya@ntvkenya@KTNNewsKE
This letter signifies the impunity with which labour rights, right to assembly, right to association, right to collective bargaining, right to freedom of speech, right to protest and right to strike is viewed.
And the unconstitutional letter in itself deserves a mega-protest.
We note with concern the inflammatory statement issued by the Inspector General of Police; terming the ongoing strike by Doctors and Clinical Officers as a public nuisance and instructing his officers to “deal with such situations firmly and decisively”. We condemn the ill-advised, distasteful statement, and the Law Society shall oppose such blatant threats, reckless outbursts, and illegal directives to the full extent of the sovereign power of our Constitution and the People of Kenya.
The sustained, targeted attacks against Doctors exercising their right to demonstrate enshrined under Article 37 of the Constitution is unjustifiable and illegal. The shocking use of force against peaceful protestors and hiring of goons to interfere with protests is a breach of our democracy and constitutionalism as a nation. The role of the Police is to provide security and ensure the safety of the public, whether protestors or otherwise. In that regard, any action against protestors must be proportional to the breach of peace caused, if at all. The suggestion by the IG that the use of vuvuzelas and whistles is a breach of peace requiring "firm action" is untenable.
We remind the IG that his foremost duty under section 8A of the National Police Service Act is to ensure discipline of the Service. The connotation of his statement today is that he has invited his officers to violate the rights of doctors under the guise of firm action against a lawful demonstration. Should any unreasonable use of force be metted against doctors, we will take legal action to find the Inspector General personally liable for anything done on account of this directive, and also ensure that individual Officers found culpable for using unreasonable force against doctors are held personally liable.
Faith Mony Odhiambo
POLSK
In a normal Country where Government officials are appointed on basis of merits, Dr. Kahura Mundia would be the CS for Health. But this is Kenya where clitocurrency is more worthy than intelligent brains.
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Excellent summary of issues currently facing labour organising in the digital age and in the economy. Precarity is at the heart of the modern capitalist world system’s strategy of accumulation. But workers are not resigned into defeat but are actively responding in new ways.
The kenyattas who have stolen longest since independence can feed their 100 generations without any struggle. The price list is shocking to us #lowerfoodprices