Kenya Public Investment Committee (PIC) is set to investigate the Sh 5b Health scandal that was exposed this week.
The PIC said that it will probe the Sh5b Health scandal, and thoroughly interrogate KNH, KMTC, KEMSA, NACC officials as Public Accounts Committee (PAC) probe Ministry bosses.
Health Cs, Cleopa Mailu and Health Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri who were set to be interrogated today, have been scheduled to be probed on Tuesday next week after the two were said to be attending a meeting at Afya House.
This came after internal audit report was leaked showing theft of an amount five times the infamous Sh791 million National Youth Service scandal.
The scandal also involved payments of millions of shillings to phony suppliers in the financial year (2015/2016).
Following the expose, PS Muraguri is reported to have had threatened a journalist, the author of the Ministry of Health theft story.
The Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ) has demanded the immediate resignation and prosecution of Dr Muragari for defending wanton corruption at the Ministry and threats to a Business Daily journalist.
“Thousands of Kenyans die every second due to lack of drugs and medical equipment in our public hospitals, but a public officer who is entrusted with this very significant responsibility of saving lives can afford to defend the loss of Sh5 billion with threats to the media,” said KUJ secretary general Erick Oduor in a statement.
“Besides dancing on the graves of Kenyans whose lives could have been saved by the drugs and equipment that were to be procured by the diverted funds, Dr Muraguri disclosed that the government will instead consider hacking into systems of newsrooms, and spy what journalists are doing.”
Mr Oduor called on President Uhuru Kenyatta to demand for accountability from such public officers who believe that espionage in newsrooms is the only cure to corruption cancer in government ministries.