Nurses vow to defy President Kenyatta's ordersNurses have vowed to defy orders by President Uhuru Kenyatta instructing them to report back to work by Friday, saying that the strike is constitutional and properly protected. Kenya National Union of Nurses (Knun) secretary-general Seth Panyako, addressing the media immediately after President Kenyatta’s speech, said the strike was still on and that nothing had changed. According to Mr Panyako, he did not call for the boycott, but Knun branch officials in the counties did and are the ones who can call off the strike. “If today they advise me to call off the strike following the directive from our President, I will do that very diligently. This is not a national strike, but we are dealing with individual counties.

Source: Daily Nation February 14, 2019 03:00 UTC