“My hands are tied” Sonko sympathizes with striking nurses

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has been spending part of this week in the US attending a conference on how to improve the cities.

Sonko who claims to be an ambassador of good deeds as rooted back to the Sonko Rescue Team, sympathizes with the striking nurses.

The national and the county governments have threatened to ensure that nurses who will be dismissed for failure to resume work will not be rehired either by the national or county level.

In a joint press statement, the Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki and chairman of the Council of Governors (CoG) Wycliffe Oparanya said that there are mechanisms to ensure that dismissed officers are not rehired.

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday appeared to have closed all avenues for dialogue with the striking nurses after he ruled out raising “the bloated and unsustainable” public wage bill further. He emphasized that there is no money to pay the nurses.

The Nairobi county nurses took their demonstrations to the office of the Governor and littered the place.

Governor Sonko addressed the issue saying that his hands are tight and have no control of budget but the heinous act by the doctors in his office should not be condoned.

” In as much as I support the CBA by the county workers my hands are tight on the legal implementation of the same as provided for in the law. SRC have gone to court and secured a court order in their favour stopping us from the implementation process of the said county workers CBA. However I’m saddened by the action of a section of county workers who have been incited by some union officials to dump huge litter outside the county offices and it’s environs. We shall not tolerate this kind of sabotage from people who are supposed to be working closely with my administration to ensure we take our great City to another level,” he posted on his Facebook page.

Posted by Mike Sonko. on Thursday, 21 February 2019