Health CS Kagwe Denies Covid-19 Equipment Donated by Jack Ma Was Sold to Tanzania
Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has refuted reports that some Covid-19 medical equipment donated by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma was sold in Tanzania.
Kagwe, who appeared before a National Assembly committee on Monday, termed #Covid-19Millionaires, a report compiled by NTV investigative reporter Dennis Okari, as imaginary.
He further dismissed claims that the Health Ministry cannot account for up to Sh40 billion set aside to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, adding that no investigation has been carried out to prove that funds were used inappropriately.
“I don’t know who is supposed to have sent instructions to Kemsa. I can assure you for a fact that it is not the person you are looking at. It would be interesting to know and these are the things I’m talking about, theories and innuendos that are just fiction, ” Kagwe told members of the committee.
“What I have never seen is an investigation that has led to somebody because we can account with our laboratories the reagents that we got from Jack Ma and how they have been used,” he added.
In the report that sparked uproar among Kenyans, Okari exposed how at least three-quarters of the equipment donated by Ma found its way to neighboring Tanzania with a few individuals pocketing millions of shillings from its sale.
The donation, which included face masks, testing kits, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), was meant to boost Kenya's fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
NTV reported that the equipment was ferried to Tanzania by road and crossed the Namanga border under tight police protection. The consignment was sold to a dozen of Tanzanian companies.
Dr. Godwin Agutu, the Director of Network Action Against Corruption (NAAC), an organization that has been monitoring how Covid-19 funds are being spent, told Okari that the remaining equipment was given to some private companies that later supplied them to the government at inflated prices.
Comments (16)
Jack Ma - it is not your business to know where the equipment you may have donated went! Kenya may have gotten rid of it in the fear that it may have been laced with coronavirus before you shipped it! Nobody asked you to donate anything!! The best you can do is keep the damn coronavirus in China!
Tell that to the ones who stole and sold it and made millions of KSh while Kenyans were being asked to pay for what remained. Maybe you are one of them. You sound like you live on the moon.
Your problem is the burning desire for free stuff! You will die poor begging and expecting others to reach out and wipe your mafi!
Let me enlighten you. This is an open secret.
https://www.254news.co.ke/evil-country-richard-ngatia-accused-of-sellin…
Where there is smoke usually there is a fire. To my opinion an investigation should be launched and equipment come up missing Mr Kagwe should be jailed and his property forfeited to compensate for the loss if indeed there is a loss. The investigation should be done by an indipendent organization.
Richard Ngatia always steals for his friend Uhuru Kenyatta.
How much of the ksh 40 Billion went to :
1. Raila Odinga
2. Hassan Joho
Rumor has it: These Covid funds are being used to buy furniture for people’s houses.
Kenyan doctors and nurses need to exit the Kenyan health care system en mass.
Go look for jobs in other countries.
Jack Ma should stop donating to thieves.
Kagwe stop lying. Show us where those equipment are?
The biggest problem that black nations have is of Donors. Why donate?. Kenyans do not need donations. We do not need patronizing. Donate it to your people. They need your help more than Kenyans. Every time they pretend to donate, they are looking for some favor or do so to show the black man is beneath them.
For all those donors, grantors, and the like, take a break.
Donations are not the problem. Even rich nations take donations when in a crisis. The problem is our people. The government doesn’t help the poor. When someone dies, it steals the donations. We have a corrupt society. That’s is the plain truth.
You are the government! You can help those you deem to be poor, and yourself included! Get a damn job and stop expecting shit you don’t own!!
You need to spend less time on mwaklishi and some time in anger management class. You need the class. Believe me. The anger you you have and display here will eat you from within.
Kagwe should be aiding a probe into how the money was used instead of offering empty words. Refute the allegations with solid proof.
KULENI kabisa, LAKINI machozi na damu ya maskini will follow you to your graves.
Be careful that it doesn't even follow your kids, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Remember God is never lake and doesn't rush either.
KULENI kabisa, LAKINI machozi na damu ya maskini will follow you to your graves.
Be careful that it doesn't even follow your kids, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Remember God is never lake and doesn't rush either.