Healthcare graduates who were shortlisted for employment by the Public Service Commission (PSC) last year have written to President William Ruto in an attempt to be officially placed.
The graduates request appointment letters in a letter dated February 20 and copied to the PSC, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, Chief Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, and Health CS Susan Nakumincha.
"Kindly Sir, you know securing a chance through PSC in this country is a nightmare, but we were lucky... unfortunately, someone has been sitting on our appointment letters since 2021," they said in the letter.
Designated employees have formed a lobbying group to advocate for employment letters. Bernard Asiago, Kiplang'at Maruka, Phillip Mulama, and Tony Kilichu have been chosen as their representatives to engage the state in their collective plight.
Following a regime perceived to be trying to undo most of its predecessor's programs, health workers now say they are afraid of being labelled as Azimio loyalists whose employment was intended to be a political reward.
"We are genuine professionals who had gone through competitive recruitment exercise by the PSC and sailed through. It only remained being issued with appointment letters. But a change of guard in government appear to have branded us politically incorrect," said their letter.
The letter went on to say that they were picked from a national pool of applicants...Sadly, they have yet to be posted even after we have severally reminded the government about their case, and they now want the president to intervene in the matter. Adding that they are among millions of kenyans who are jobless.
They went on to say that They said that it is a sad affair that patients continue to die in hospital queues waiting for medical services when they are waiting to serve as appointed but not posted.
