A section of former Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) employees have asked President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga to intervene in their woes so that they can be reinstated as KPA employees.
The 27 workers, who were fired after striking for one day in 2015, have lamented that life has become unbearable for them and they need their jobs back so that they can pay their bills.
The authority fired 28 of the officials from Dock Workers Union but one of them passed on. The remaining employees feel they were unfairly dismissed and hence they deserve justice.
“We were dismissed because we were fighting for the employees who had elected us to fight for their welfare,” the former assistant chairman Abubakar Mohamed said at a press conference on Monday in Mombasa.
“No warning letters were issued to us, nor were we given an opportunity to defend ourselves as stipulated by the Labour Relations law,” Mohamed added.
According to the former Vice-Chair Michael Kyalo, the workers went on strike because of the increased NHIF rates from Sh320 to Sh1700 per month.
The employees now want the matter revisited as soon as possible because they believe they were wrongly dismissed by the then Managing Director Gichiri Ndua.