Breaking: Doctor's Strike Ends

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mzeiya

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The long-standing doctors' strike has finally come to an end after 56 days as the government and the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) signed a return-to-work formula.

This comes after the Employment and Labour Relations Court ordered the union and the government to come up with an agreeable return-to-work formula by Wednesday.

KMPDU on Tuesday presented before the court a separate document from what the government had presented, prompting the judge to issue the Wednesday deadline, saying failure to which it would be forced determine the matter.

The union and the government entities - through the Council of Governors (CoG) and the Ministry of Health - were for the better part of Tuesday evening holed up in a meeting to resolve the stalemate.

KMPDU Secretary General Dr. Davji Atellah had, in the mean time, postponed the doctors’ peaceful protests to an unnamed date to pave the way for the negotiations.

Since March 14, doctors have abandoned their duty stations and have been protesting the government’s failure to post medical interns and obey a 2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) on medics’ labour terms.

They have held long-running negotiations with a ‘Whole of the Nation Approach' committee bringing together the Ministry of Health, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission and the Head of Public Service.

But the talks were largely unfruitful after the government presented a Ksh.70,000 offer for the medical interns in place of the Ksh.206,000 set in the 2017 CBA.
 
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Othello

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Okiya said:
Bring evidence of this we discuss
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State uses Sh162bn loan illegally on salaries, utilities

The state uses Sh162.2 billion of borrowed money on operating expenses such as payment of salaries and utilities in breach of the law.
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Worth noting the call for the debt audit arises from the fact that the money borrowed from commercial banks and strictly meant for development purposes was largely diverted for recurrent expenditures.
 
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Othello

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Okiya said:
COVID year. How much tax did Kenya collect that year? How much revenue did we earn from tourism? Was any government official fired from work the way private companies did?
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Okiya wa SKU izi ni mabishano tu, sio ka wa kitambo who was more logical. Or did he sell his handle?
1. Govt redirecting commercial loans to recurrent expenditure was so prevalent during Uhuru's time. Remember even the auditor general told us they couldn't account for the $2B euro bond.
2. 2021/22 was not a covid yr. After years of govt financial mismanagement, they were finally unable to pay salaries. And it's the same reason the govt delayed payment of salaries for a few months sometime last year.
 
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Othello said:
Okiya wa SKU izi ni mabishano tu, sio ka wa kitambo who was more logical. Or did he sell his handle?
1. Govt redirecting commercial loans to recurrent expenditure was so prevalent during Uhuru's time. Remember even the auditor general told us they couldn't account for the $2B euro bond.
2. 2021/22 was not a covid yr. After years of govt financial mismanagement, they were finally unable to pay salaries. And it's the same reason the govt delayed payment of salaries for a few months sometime last year.
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Don't deviate from the discussion by bringing mambo ya Eurobond.

Let's focus on the article you posted.

The article says that 82% of borrowings was spent on development and the rest on recurrent where the Minister says it was because of COVID.

It's quite funny if you think 2021/22 was not a COVID year.

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