Nairobi county health workers to protest over unpaid salaries, unremitted third party deductions
Health workers in Nairobi City County have shared a picketing notice over non-payment of third-party deductions for July and pending salaries for August and September 2025.
In a notice shared to the Nairobi Regional Police Commander George Sedah and copied to the Central Sub-County Commander and the Central Police Station Commanding Officer, the Nairobi Health Union Secretariat has shared that they shall be meeting at the Jevanjee gardens at 9am on 2nd October 2025 before matching along Muindi Mbingu Street to Kenyatta Avenue and later Wabera Street where the County offices are.
“We wish to notify your esteemed office of a planned picketing pursuant to Article 37 of the constitution in response to non-payment of July2025 third-party deduction and two months salaries by the Nairobi City County government,” the letter stated in part.
The picketing will include all workers of the health sector in the devolved unit including doctors, nurses, medical laboratory workers, clinical officers, nutritionists, pharmaceutical technologist, and public health officers among others.
Speaking exclusively to The Informer Media Group about the picketing, the Nairobi Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists’ Union (KMPDU) Nairobi chapter Secretary General Malindi Chao stated that the health workers in Nairobi have been suffering and nothing is working.
“Health workers are TIRED! Nothing is working in Nairobi! In July, the Sakaja led administration did not remit the third-party deductions. For the last two months doctors among other health workers are yet to receive their salaries, a sad story where they can barely put food on their families tables” she stated regrettably.
She revealed that they have tried following with the controller of budget (COB) but they are not getting clear answers from both sides. (The County administration and the COB).
She indicated that the response from the COB however indicates that there might not be a delay from their side but the County.
“No one is giving us a clear answer. We inquired from the COB and there answer was a question “Is the county alluding that the delay is on our side? By this it means the delay is by Sakaja and his team. If it were the COB, they would have just shared that it is them that have delayed to release the funds,” she explained.
The picketing comes weeks after the other county workers have also been on a go slow over the delay in salaries by the county.
In July, Nurses, laboratory officers, pharmaceutical technologists and public health officers took part in the protests, citing chronic unbearable delays in salaries that left them unable to cater for basic needs such as food.
Their industrial action was triggered after the county failed to pay June salaries on time, pushing health facilities into crisis as services were paralyzed or reduced to bare minimums. Union officials pointed out that the delays contravened the Employment Act of 2007, which requires that wages be paid promptly and not later than the fifth day after the end of the pay period.
