Government Employees Evicted From Their Residential Quarters

February 13, 2021

A section of civil servants have been evicted from their residential quarters, forcing them into a crisis.

The Kisii County Government on the Saturday morning, February 13 evicted nurses from their houses in staff quarters at Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital.

The exercise lead by officials from the local health ministry despite claims it was illegal since protocol for eviction was not followed.

The union of nurses in Kisii county has raised strong disagreement with this action with the court tabling their issues be resolved outside court.

The county government of Kisii has been attacked for failure to attend a dialogue meeting in which nurses are said to have been refusing to go to work and attending to their duties.

They are also accused of not responding to their show-cause letter and were asked to report to the disciplinary committee.

According to reports, police officers and security officers from the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital served the nurses with letters claiming they should leave the houses.

The letters are said to have originated from the Chief Officer of Health in Kisii with the heath workers terming this incident as unlawful, since no notice was served to them in time.