Sakaja Bill’s unpaid leave proposal unsustainable

The spirit of the Pandemic Response and Management Bill 2020 is in line with the current Covid-19 predicament. Seeing the Senate ad hoc committee, chaired by Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja, come up with such quick recommendations to try to cushion the citizens against any imaginable financial burden is commendable

Reading through the very well written 40 sections of the proposed law, anyone can see that a lot of thought went into the drafting. There is a clear description of the application of the Act, which is only during the period of a pandemic — described as one where there is an infectious disease across borders. This means that as soon as the pandemic is declared non-existent, then everything goes back to normal.