Members of Kirinyaga County Assembly, who had gone to meet with governor Anne Waiguru at her office on Tuesday, were met by heavily armed police officers at the entrance.
The MCAs, who are also members of the county’s health committee led by Henry Fundi, were planning to discuss the situation in Kirinyaga’s health sector.
The police were said to be armed to the tooth with wooden batons guns and even tear gas canisters.
Among the issues that they had intended to discuss with the governor were the health workers strike that has paralysed medical services in the county.
The MCAs, who were accompanied by representatives of the medical union, were blocked from even entering the compound of the governor's office.
According to the committee, the county assembly had already approved funds to pay the doctors but Waiguru’s administration was unwilling to end the strike that entered its 35th day on Wednesday.
They then gave the county a 48-hour ultimatum to sort the health mess failure to which they would file a formal complaint to the Senate.
“We have today found the police really prepared, armed with batons, tear gas among other weapons and as the representatives of the people of Kirinyaga, we are not willing to sniff the tear gas but we are willing to use the law,” Fundi told reporters.
This comes almost a week after Waiguru announced that she had dismissed all the striking health workers and had already started recruiting new ones.
Waiguru also revealed that the government would withhold the June salaries of all health workers who downed their tools despite being ordered to report back to work.
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