Nurses in Embu have vowed to campaign against re-election of Governor Martin Wambora in the August elections for failing to address their grievances.
Over 3,000 nurses said they will mobilize their families to vote out Wambora who they accused of ignoring the health sector in the past four years.
The striking nurses said they have suffered endless agony and desperation in the four years of Wambora’s tenure and were not ready to work for another five years under the same government.
“We are tired of the current regime and we are more than ready to send them home. They have completely neglected us and we will show them no mercy in the August elections,” said their branch secretary chairperson Joseph Ngwaci.
Ngwaci said change of regime in the county might be a big relief to the health sector that is ailing due to poor working conditions and pay of the health workers.
Embu Senator Lenny Kivuti raised concern over the deteriorating state of the County’s health sector saying a lot of money had been pumped in by the central government to improve the sector in the County in vain.
Some of the health workers claimed that they earn Sh 7, 000 monthly; with Kivuti saying it was against the labour laws since the government had revised the minimum wage to about Sh13, 000.
