Francis Atwoli: 'All workers should pay for jigger fight'

Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli (centre) and Ahadi Kenya CEO Stanley Kamau clean beneficiaries during a free jigger treatment camp at Khwisero Primary School on Saturday. [PHOTO: CHRISPEN SECHERE/STANDARD].

KAKAMEGA: Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) Secretary General Francis Atwoli has asked the Government to declare jiggers infestation a national disaster.

Mr Atwoli also proposed that all workers, in both public and private sectors, be compelled to contribute at least Sh1 towards the campaign against the infestation.