• Instead of reporting to work on Friday morning, the workers staged protests outside county secretary's office.
• Workers' union official says all county staff are under instructions not to go back to work until they are paid.
Kitui county workers on Friday went back on strike after a promise by Governor Charity Ngilu to pay them failed to materialise.
On August 23, the governor committed herself in a return-to-work formula with the workers' union officials that she would ensure they received their two months' salary within two weeks.
The workers suspended their strike for 14 days.
Upon the expiry of the deadline on Thursday, the workers kept away from their offices on Friday morning, paralysing all services at the county headquarters in Kitui town.
Kitui Kenya County Government Workers Union Kitui branch secretary Daisy Muli said they were adhering to the agreement with Ngilu to down tools if they will not have been paid by lapse of two weeks.
Besides Ngilu and Muli, the August 23 pact was also signed by and the union's Eastern region national executive committee member Virginia Kalwe and Kitui County Union of Kenya Civil Servants secretary Benjamin Munyalo.
On Friday, the workers staged a salary parade outside the office of County Secretary Joshua Chepchieng seeking to an audience on the issue.
Muli told journalists that all county workers were under instructions to go on strike until they are paid.
Edited by R.Wamochie