Ngilu Cornered: Trade Unions To Stage Mass Demo Over Salaries

Five trade unions with membership drawn from across the county have planned the mother of all demonstrations against outgoing governor Ngilu, accusing her of gross incompetence and callousness. 

The unions have called on their hundreds of members to come out in large numbers and scare the daylights out of the failed governor for failing to pay workers salaries for three months in a row.

According to a letter drawn by the five unions and which has been leaked to our highly trusted and reliable desk and which has also been served to Kitui county police commander, the demo is scheduled for Wednesday, September 30 from 9am to 2pm.

The protestors in their hundreds will first assemble at Kitui Stadium then start a peaceful mass walk through buspark – Mulleys supermarket – Total petro station before pouring enmass at the governor’s office.

Here, they will express their displeasure with the failed outgoing governor who has overseen the death of Kitui and mass suffering of Kitui workers as well as residents.

“It will be a demo like no other. We shall demand for answers from none other than the governor on why county workers have not been paid for a record three months. We shall not entertain her blame games and back passing” one of the trade unionist told our trusted desk.

The unionists, through the letter, a copy of which has also been received by the county commissioner have called on the police to provide enough security to the demonstrators in anticipation of infiltration of hired goons by Mbee Nzei cartels that might want to join the demo and cause chaos.

“We have intelligence they might want to hire goons to infiltrate our demo to cause chaos and loot shops in order to tarnish our names. Our demo will be peaceful but we shall speak forcefully against the ills affecting the county and county workers” stated another official.

The unions that have organized the demo are; 1. Kenya National Union of Nurses (Kitui chapter), 2. Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (Kitui Chapter)  3. Kenya Civil Servants Union (Kitui Chapter), 4. Kenya Union of Nutritionists and Dieticians and 5. Kenya County Government Workers Union (Kitui Chapter).

For a third month in a row, the county workers continue to stare at empty bank accounts after rejected Ngilu refused to sign an appropriation bill prepared by the county assembly in line with a recently passed budget. 

Ngilu said she could not sign the App Bill because her budget, in which she had allocated colossal amounts of money to dubious projects for onward looting was amended by the Assembly.

At one time she fled to the Controller of Budget (CoB) and sought to be given authority to use public funds outside the normal procedure, an idea that was shot down by the CoB.