If you are the kind that fancies industrial strike to agitate for your rights, then behold, some professions will not fit you.
That is only if proposal by Gatundu South Member of Parliament Moses Kuria sees light of the day.
Kuria proposed on Friday that parliament should pass a law that would have some professionals banned from going on strike. Really!
Kuria intends that medics, teachers and pilots to be barred from ever engaging in industrial action.
“Kitu kama afya, mambo ya elimu, mambo kama ya wale watu wanaendesha ndege, tuweke sheria huko bunge Bwana Spika hao watu tuseme hawawezi kugoma, (Things like health, education and pilots, we enact laws in Parliament Mr. Speaker so that those people cannot go on strike),” he declared.
Kuria’s remarks came in the backdrop of a three-week long nurses’ strike that paralyzed operations in most government and county hospitals across the country, demanding for better pay and working conditions.
The controversial legislature also rebuked the importation of eggs and fish from China and Uganda claiming that it was affecting local farmers.
“Tuangalie hali ya mwananchi wa kawaida, juzi nimeongea mambo ya kuleta mayai, kuku, samaki kutoka China na Uganda. Wengine wakasema ati mi namchapa ndugu yangu Mheshimiwa Munya, hapana, hata kama ni ndugu yangu, ama dadangu nitasema vile vile, maana watu wetu wako na shida.Unataka kuniambia hapa Tharaka Nithi hatuwezi kuweka kuku ikataga mayai ndio tulete kuku kutoka China?”
(Let us look into the welfare of the common man, I recently spoke about the importation of eggs, chickens, and fish from China and Uganda and some thought I was fighting Munya (Trade and Industrialisation CS), no, you want to tell me we can’t rear chickens that lay eggs for us to import chickens from China?) He posed.
The video below has his sentiments.