Clinical officers in Kenya insist their strike is legal despite court outlawing other medics’ boycott

Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (Kuco) officials demonstrate outside Ministry of Health offices in Nairobi on December 08 2016 over salary disputes. They have opted for industrial action after the county government failed to meet their demands after expiry of a 14-day ultimatum. [PHOTO DAVID NJAAGA/STANDARD]

Clinical officers have said their strike is legal even after the court declared on Tuesday that the doctors' and nurses' strike as illegal and ordered them back to work.

Through their yet to be registered union Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO), the clinical officers asserted that their industrial action is still within the context of the law.