Directive to deny doctors salaries illegal Mutula

A directive by health Principal Secretary instructing County Governors not to pay doctors for the days they were on strike is illegal, Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jnr has said.

Earlier this week, The Council of Governors through its chairman Peter Munya endorsed the directive saying that the governors will not pay the doctors for the days they were not on duty.

Kilonzo Jnr, who was part of the legal team that represented the doctors, said they would be seeking declaratory orders against Muraguri and his boss Cleopa Mailu before a court of law.

According to Mutula, a return to work formula stated that no doctor would be victimized and that Muraguri had no capacity to instruct governors on the same.

He was speaking in Kilome during a sendoff ceremony of six relatives who perished in a car crash in Manyani along Mombasa-Nairobi Highway.