Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has called out President Ruto over his statements about the ongoing doctor's strike.
During an earlier event, President William Ruto suggested that leaders who support striking doctors should instead pay for their wages, pointing out that the government lacks the finances to satisfy the doctors' salary demands.
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“If you support the strike then pay the money they are asking for. We must stop chasing what is popular, and instead go for what is right,” Ruto said.
Senator Sifuna chastised Ruto for his remarks during a Senate session, stating that the doctors should be granted their payment demands because their wages are paid from public funds rather than the president.
"I want to remind him that the money that pays doctors, the money that pays him, is not his money. We support doctors and want our taxes to pay doctors," he said.
He also voiced alarm about the apparent threats made by Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome, who has repeatedly advised physicians not to go to the streets.
Sifuna said that Koome has demonstrated ineptitude and that his appointment to the critical position of national security constitutes a significant threat to the enforcement of law provisions.
"He does not seem to understand the Bill of Rights and people have the right to assemble. I have been seeing doctors in the streets dressed in their white coats [and] they don't look threatening at all," noted Sifuna.
