Kiambu doctors call off strike after 151 days
From left: Council of Governors CEO Mary Mwiti, KMPDU Secretary-General Davji Atellah and Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi on October 24, 2025.
Doctors in Kiambu have called off a 151-day strike after signing a return-to-work deal with the Governor Kimani Wamatangi-led government.
This was confirmed at a press briefing Friday graced by Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) Secretary-General Davji Atellah, Governor Wamatangi and Council of Governors chair Abdullswamad Nassir.
The strike began on May 27, 2025 with the medics citing persistent delays in salary disbursements, delayed promotions and denial of career progression opportunities.
The doctors also lamented an unclear supervisory management structure amid claims of political bullying and intimidation.
At the Friday presser, Governor Wamatangi reckoned that political interference was to blame for protracted strike.
"In the first place, if politics and politicians were not in the midst of the strike, we would not have been there. In the period that the strike was ongoing, we did what we had to do," he said.
According to a statement issued by the Council of Governors, Kiambu County has agreed to pay doctors' salaries that had been withheld during the strike. The county will also reinstate remittance of doctors' dues, as well as agreeing to deal with claims of bullying and intimidation.
"It was agreed that there shall be no victimisation whatsoever by the employer to the members who took part in the ongoing strike."
