Atwoli Wades War With Chelugui Over Appointment – Kenyan Business Feed

Central organization of Trade Unions has raged a war with the ministry of labour over the failure to gazette  Rose Omamo to the NSSF Board.

On the first of May 2022 during the Labour Day Celebrations, President Uhuru Kenyatta directed the Cabinet Secretary to gazette COTU (K)’s nominee to the Board

The trade Union umbreller body is now calling on the president so to fire labour ministry officials in what they term as

“It has come to our attention that the Ministry of Labour has blatantly refused to gazette the appointment of Sis. Rose Omamo to the NSSF Board as directed by the President. In this act of defiance and contempt, both the Cabinet and Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Labour have disobeyed the president by delegating responsibility upwards.” said COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli.

COTU said In no other democracy in the world do presidential appointees, who work at the mercies of the president, behave in the manner in which these two have conducted themselves.

That the president ordered only for the cabinet secretary to pass this responsibility to the Head of Public Service warrants further action from the President if his power and authority is anything to go by.

The Statement Read

Secondly, and in their act of disrespecting the president, the Ministry of Labour has embarked on a misinformation campaign whereby they have since changed positions on why they didn’t gazette Rose Omamo as a workers’ representative to the NNS Board. Previously, the Ministry of Labour’s major argument against the gazettement of Sis. Omamo was based on a speculated query on regional balance but after it was established that no region is represented twice, the ministry has since started a new narrative questioning the capacity of Sis. Omamo to be in the NSSF Board whilst giving us conditions that are nowhere reflected under the provisions of NSSF Act, 2013.

Against this new narrative by the Ministry of Labour, Sis. Rose Omamo is articulate in all aspects of academic qualifications and equally runs one of the giant unions in Kenya, namely, Amalgamated Union of Kenya Metal Workers which is an affiliate of the IndustriALL Global Union which represents over 50 million workers globally in 140 countries. Sis. Omamo is one of the well versed Kenyans in Industrial Relations practice, more than anyone within the Ministry of Labour, and she’s the workers choice. 

As patriotic Kenyans, we would like to remind the president that he shouldn’t be disrespected by his appointees and that failure to appoint COTU (K)’s nominee as earlier directed warrants for dismissal of the involved officials.

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