Why are Senators getting excited over their own probe into the Sh.63billion Managed Health Equipment Service(MES) deal? – By Henry Kimoli
The committee, chaired by Fatumo Dulo is beginning to sound, look and appear even amateurish…if not uninformed of how the government operates.
We have no details of its terms of reference…but common sense and probity are most times akin to siamese twins.
On Monday, the committee was demanding by menaces, documents of the deal…from a retired civil servant. And a tired one at that.
Begging the question: where did Dulo expect Dr. Khadija Kassachoon, sacked from the Government to get the documents from?
Even during her tenure first, as a PS in the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries and later health, Kassachoon’s demeanor was that of a public officer who could not differentiate between Paracetamol tablets and cough syrup.
Begging the question: Was she supposed to have stored the documents under her pillow? If she had in the first place seen the documents?
The sensible action was to demand the documents from the current Health PS.
Once the documents are submitted, the committee would have then summoned Kassachoon to authenticate the documents.
But you get the feeling that the end results if this probe is determined and the idea is to play theatrics with the public.
The Senate capacity to probe this deal is suspect. Because the executors of the deal were ahead of time and must have covered their tracks very well.
Instead of shouting at Kassachoon, there was a CS at the time, James Macharia. He is still in government.
There is no way Sh.63billion would have left the Ministry accounts without his knowledge.
For Dulo et al to threaten Kassachoon with a fine of Sh.200,000 is an insult into the intelligence of Kenyans.
Kassachoon, or even her gardener at home can afford to pay the fine…if the consideration is Sh.63billion.
So rather than waste tax payers time, the Senate should go ahead and clear the Ministry of Health of any wrong-doing.
The Ministry of Health has since independence been run by cartels. And the cartels have been deadly and ruthless.
Kassachoon, like many others before her, may have been cat walking at Mafya house as deals were cut.
If this is the case, and it most likely is, she should be ready for the consquences.
The bad news for Kassachoon, Macharia, and Nick Muranguri, then the director of Medical Services is that President Uhuru Kenyatta has been “mteja” for sometime.
His landlines also go unanswered because most civil servants are working from home due to the Covid-19 protocals.
