Doctors’ union officials handed one-month jail sentence, ordered to call off strike

The Employment and Labour Relations court has sentenced Doctors’ union six officials to a one-month suspended sentence.

Lady Justice Hellen Wasilwa also ordered the KMPDU officials to call off the strike and finalize negotiations in the next two weeks.

KMPDU officials seated on the second row with their lawyers in the front row during the case. PHOTO | MAUREEN KAKAH

The judge said should this not happen, the officials will be arrested and locked up at Langata Women’s and Industrial area or Kamiti prisons for the remainder two weeks.

In her ruling, she condemned the officials for being weak leaders and not being able to make a decision on behalf of their members.

Doctors outside court after the sentencing. PHOTO | MAUREEN KAKAH

The officials had pleaded with her to be given a lenient sentence saying that the decision to call off strike lay with their members and not them in their own individual capacity.

The judge has also sternly warned that there is no existing Collective Bargaining Agreement registered hence the strike must be called off.

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