WEDNESDAY’S public statement by Thika MP Alice Ng’ang’a that she played a pivotal role in reaching an agreement between Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi and the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) over the ending of the medics’ strike appeared to vindicate the former.
The MP told her constituents on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, that she played an active and critical role in the recently ended Kiambu doctors’ strike, which lasted 151 days.
Wamatangi had persistently maintained that the strike, which exposed helpless patients to untold suffering, was politically instigated, pointing an accusing finger at Alice, who is aligned with her Kikuyu counterpart Kimani Ichung’wah and a host of their colleagues from Kiambu county.
The governor asserted that he wouldn’t be coerced by his political enemies into paying what he termed as absconding medics.
“No amount of political threats and intimidation will make us pay people who are relaxing at home at the expense of patients,” Wamatangi said at Kahawa Sukari during a public engagement.
Alice, who has however not made a formal declaration for her candidacy for the gubernatorial race, has mainly focused on accusing Governor Kimani Wamatangi of mishandling the Kiambu health care crisis.
In early October 2025, Alice used her social media platforms to publicly criticize Governor Wamatangi for his poor handling of the strike.
She called the situation, which resulted in the reported deaths of infants and mothers, “a crime against humanity” and demanded an end to the “PR stunts” by the governor.
She and other Kiambu MPs alongside civil society groups were indeed part of those who put public pressure on the governor to resolve the stalemate between the Kiambu county government and KMPDU.
Critics accused her and other MPs of colluding with KMPDU officials to prolong the strike and sabotage healthcare services in Kiambu as a political move against the governor.
The strike, which lasted 151 days, concluded on October 24, 2025, after the county government, KMPDU, and the Council of Governors signed a return-to-work formula.
