Health CS Cleopa Mailu and his PS Nicholas Muraguri at a recent event. Balambala MP Abdikadir Aden wants President Uhuru Kenyatta to sack the two for failing to negotiate with the striking doctors. (Photo Source: http://www.the-star.co.ke)
Balambala Constituency MP Abdikadir Aden wants President Uhuru Kenyatta to sack Health Cabinet Secretary (CS) Cleopa Mailu and his Principal Secretary (PS) Nicholas Muraguri for failing to lead fruitful negotiations with striking doctors.
The MP claims that the inability of Mailu and Muraguri to contain the ongoing doctors strike is reason enough to send the CS and his PS packing.
According to Aden, the Health CS and his PS have failed to provide direction at the Health Ministry and that their time at the docket is up.
“President Kenyatta should break his silence on the ongoing doctor’s strike by firing CS Mailu and PS Muraguri for failing the country,” he said as quoted by the Standard.
The MP noted that many Kenyans are ailing and cannot access medical services from public hospitals and clinics as a result of the ongoing doctor’s strike.
He stated that the health sector is in a crisis and needs urgent intervention which he said can only be provided by the President.
Aden hit out at President Kenyatta’s government claiming that it is not concerned by the doctors strike and the agony that Kenyans are going through.
Doctors have been on strike since December 5 last year and are demanding full implantation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that they signed with the government in 2013.
The doctors and the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) umbrella have vowed to continue with the strike until when the government will fully implement the CBA
On Monday seven KMPDU officials were sentenced to one month jail term for court contempt.
The KMPDU officials popularly known were later released by the Court of Appeal on Wednesday after spending two days in jail.
The doctors have since vowed to go on with the strike until when the national government will fully implement the 2013 CBA.