Kenya should stop corruption and invest in healthcare

Health CS Cleopa Mailu (left) flanked by PS Nicholas Muraguri before Parliamentary Labour and Social Welfare Committee in Nairobi, to negotiate a possible end to the doctors' strike, in this photo taken on February 22, 2017. Lawmakers challenged the Government to proactively deal with the medics’ strike. PHOTO DAVID NJAAGA/STANDARD

The doctor’s strike that has entered its third month brings to mind the mythical story of the Kusadikika Kingdom; defined by excessive greed, lust and abuse of power.

The subjects of Kusadikika were not expected to question their rulers. Everything belonged to the king- Rivers, stones, lands, fish, animals – yet every second he cried, “Thirst, hunger, thirst, hunger”. Despite this, the citizens of Kusadikika were expected to believe what their rulers said.