Over 2,000 community health promoters stormed the Uasin Gishu county offices demanding their delayed 10 months pay amounting to more than Sh50 million.
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00:00We are grateful to His Excellency the President, because he looked at us and started this movement
00:18of community health promoters, level one doctors.
00:22The thing that brought us here to Wasingishu County, thanks to the launch of community health promoters
00:32in Kiriju up to date, there is no stipend that we have been given by the county government.
00:38The national government has paid us up to one month, two months.
00:44The county government of Wasingishu, they have not paid us at a single cent.
00:50We have been protesting, but we are telling stories here and there.
00:54Today, the boss told us that we wanted to go and greet our governor.
00:58I briefed him and I wrote a message that we are coming today at 5pm,
01:04we will be at your office at 2pm,
01:07so that he can show us a way forward.
01:09Because these people that we have here in Wasingishu,
01:13they are not alone.
01:15Because if they were here, we would not have been in the same situation we are in now.
01:20Because, one, we were given kits.
01:23The kits were taken about seven months before they were trained.
01:27Then we were given drugs.
01:29We were given drugs, and then it took seven months before they were trained.
01:34We have a fever.
01:36Now that we are at home, we would not have been able to help them.
01:40They were not trained in time,
01:44so they had to go and receive pressure from the government.
01:49That is why we are now coming to the county government to ask for our rights.
01:54Because I am a student of 2500.
01:57And it has been delayed.
01:59That is why we are asking our governor.
02:01Why is he not paying us?
02:04If other counties are paying us,
02:09why are they not giving us our money?
02:12And where are the other county governments?