Kenyan Employers Ordered to Release Employees Before 4pm In Order for Workers to Make it Home Before Curfew
The government has ordered all Kenyan employers to release their employees not later than 4 pm to ensure they comply with the dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed last week by President Kenyatta.
In a gazette notice dated Wednesday, April 1st, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i said this will ensure all Kenyans are at home by 7 pm.
CS Matiang’i said the order affects employees offering non-critical and non-essential services.
The countrywide curfew running between 7 pm and 5 am is part of measures put in place by the government to stem the spread of coronavirus in the country.
Medical professionals, health workers, critical and essential services providers are exempted from the daily restriction.
Critical and essential service providers include administration officers, public health and county sanitation officers, pharmacies and drug stores, media personnel, among others.
On Wednesday, Kenya confirmed 22 new cases of Covid-19, pushing the total number of infections to 81.
The new patients include eighteen Kenyans, two Pakistan citizens and two Cameroon nationals. 13 out of the 22 new cases are males while the rest are females.
7 of the latest cases were recorded in Mombasa, 2 in Kiambu while Kakamega, Kilifi, Machakos, Murang’a, Nairobi, and Nyamira registered one case each.
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@CS Matiang'i, can you also…
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@CS Matiang'i, can you also order every Kenyan that is not employed to received at least 20,000Ksh each to be able to survive? Other than giving commands to citizens, what is anything good we can say it comes from the government? I know the wealthy people can not feel the effect but many poor people are impacted.
Can we order every Kenyan…
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Can we order every Kenyan who is able to grow their own food to do so sustain their families. (No more imports; every country is putting its citizens first). Kenyans, this should teach us to forever avoid dependency, go back to basics and take care of each other. Grow your basics; Take this to be your new normal and ask yourself how our forefathers survived; that is how we are going to survive from now on.
Do not look to export stuff. Look to help feed and take care of your family, your neighbor, your village and your country men first. God put man in a garden not a town.
Time to ask ourselves what we have been about. Who are we?
Pray to your God!! Times have changed; It's time for us to examine ourselves and make the neccessary changes with this change!!
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