Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero. [Photo:CitizenTv]
Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has vowed not to pay doctors who downed their tools for 100 days.
Kidero said the doctors do not deserve payment since they never worked for three months.
"How do you get paid when you haven't worked?" the ODM governor said during an interview on Citizen TV, Wednesday.
He said the monies received from the national government is too little to pay salaries, so those who never worked will not be paid.
This is despite President Uhuru Kenyatta’s directive that the doctors be paid to avoid another crisis in the health sector.
The Council of Governors (CoG) has also remained adamant they will not pay the medics for the period they were on the streets.
"Doctors went on an unprotected strike on December 5, 2016 as the Labour court had declared it illegal. Several initiatives aimed at getting the doctors to return to work did not bear fruits and the doctors knowingly continued with the unprotected strike. It is therefore dishonest that doctors should be demanding to be paid for work not done," the Meru governor and CoG chair Peter Munya said.
Doctors’ union KMPDU has accused the CoG of undermining the return to work deal they signed.