Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua has threatened to fire county workers who are absconding their duties.
TThe governor announced the firing of health workers at Kyeleni and Thinu health centres.
In his statement he said, “The health workers who were rostered to be on duty at the 24-hour Kyeleni health centre when a man, helpless due to lack of support, helped his wife deliver lying on the grass at the facility, behaved in a manner that is incomprehensible and unacceptable by absconding duty.”
He said he will not relent in the fight to improve locals’ living standards.
In addition he said,“Their employment with the government of Machakos is hereby terminated for gross misconduct. Their supervisors have also been sent on suspension pending disciplinary hearings. The same fate to apply to workers at Thinu Health Centre where health workers have been the absconding duty and leaving Wananchi to suffer,” he tweeted on Wednesday.