COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli yesterday held a meeting with leaders from the Luhya community at his Kajiado home. The meeting was attended by over 50 political leaders despite the Ministry of Health directing that no gatherings of more than 15 people should be allowed and restricted movement in and out of Nairobi County among other counties.
Atwoli took to Twitter to announce the deliberations of the meeting accompanied by photos where Kenyans noted a lack of social distancing.
“Today I hosted 40 Members of National Assembly, 4 Governors, 10 Senators, Speaker Ken Lusaka, CS Eugine Wamalwa, Speaker Beatrice Elachi and other eminent Luhya leaders to discuss issues that centred around Luhya unity and prosperity.” Atwoli said in a tweet.
However, Kenyans could not fail to realize the lack of social distancing in the photo tha accompanied Atwoli’s statement with many terming it as indiscipline and ignorance to the set directives by the Ministry of Health.
“This must be the indiscipline Health CS Mutahi Kagwe keeps on talking about. The problem is, he keeps on screaming at Kenyan youths for not social distancing yet it’s the old covid vulnerable men and women in politics who keep on breaking all guidelines.” A twitter user replied to Atwoli’s statement.
Another Kenyan said, “It is sad to see “leaders” behaving like this and expecting other Kenyans to comply with social distancing.”
“In Kenya, politicians live in hell while ordinary citizens have to be restricted from any form of gathering including churches…if you met all those then it’s like two village churches.”
The ministry of health directives dictates that there should be no gatherings of more than 15 people as a measure to combat the spread of Covid-19.
Currently, Kenya has 1,745 coronavirus cases and a total of 68 fatalities.
