Why she is acting like there are diamonds at the top of her thighs

Seth Panyako says he's willing to die for the cause. Panyako is the de jure Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) secretary general. This is a man who, oddly enough, is at the helm of a traditionally female profession. But even though he is outnumbered when it comes to gender balance, he refuses to be outwitted by a government that is reluctant to pay nurses their dues. He is a man determined to lead his nursing flock to Canaan.

And this is why the head-nurse-in-charge was on fire last week Friday, talking about solidarity forever and all the rest of it. This was after a press conference, called by former KNUN Chairman John Bii, degenerated into a wilderness of absolute mayhem. A section of union officials alleged that the men addressing the presser were imposters paid by the Government to declare the strike illegal. Eventually, those men, the same ones who had intended to speak on behalf of Kenya's 26,000 nurses, were ejected from their own conference.