Former Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu has slammed President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government for failing to end the ongoing doctor’s strike.
According to Ngilu, Uhuru’s government is playing with the lives of Kenyans.
Speaking during a rally at Kyuso trading center in Kitui on Wednesday, the former Lands CS noted that many Kenyans are suffering because they cannot afford specialized treatment as a result of the ongoing doctors’ strike.
She said that the ongoing doctor’s strike should have been called off long time ago.
“It is unfortunate that Uhuru’s government is not keen to end the doctors’ strike that has affected many Kenyans across the country,” she said.
The former Lands CS hit out at Uhuru’s advisors saying that they are to blame for misleading the President.
“It is people who are close to President Uhuru who should take the biggest blame in regards to the ongoing doctors’ strike,” she said.
Ngilu further hit out at the Jubilee government for intimidating and threatening doctors officials.
She said that the strategy being used by Uhuru’s government to end the doctors’ strike will not work.
Ngilu who is eyeing the Kitui gubernatorial seat said that the country will continue to experience health crisis if doctors’ demands are not met.
The doctors’ strike is in its seventh week.
On Thursday the Employment and Labour Relations court suspended added the Kenya Medical, Pharmaceuticals and Dentists Union (KMPDU) officials five days to negotiate with the government and end the ongoing strike.
The doctors’ officials however maintain that they will not resume work until when the government will fully implement a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) it signed with them in 2013.
The doctors’ strike that stated on December 5 last year has paralyzed provision of specialized health services in all public hospitals across the country.