Africa-Press – Kenya. President William Ruto has defended the arrest of Nairobi Hospital officials, saying he was approached by senior doctors and professionals from the hospital, asking him to save the hospital.
The president described Nairobi Hospital as a premier medical institution in the country and said he would not allow it to be ‘taken hostage by fraudsters.’
“As president of the Republic of Kenya and as patron of Nairobi Hospital, senior doctors and professionals from Nairobi Hospital approached me to save Nairobi Hospital from conmen, fraudsters and charlatans who wanted to expropriate Nairobi Hospital,” he said.
Ruto confirmed that after the appeal from the officials, he ordered the removal of those allegedly involved in fraud in the hospital.
“That is why I have instructed with clarity that all those who are involved in fraudulent activities in Nairobi Hospital will be removed; they will be taken to court, and they will be charged,” he added.
Ruto told the opposition, who had condemned the arrest of the Nairobi hospital officials, to find something else to do.
“I want to tell the brainless opposition to find something else to do. They are just scavengers, scavenging on any headline.”
The president said Nairobi was a public institution established to serve the country and denied claims of it being sold, saying he would not allow it to be mishandled.
“There is no way I am going to allow Nairobi Hospital to be taken over, taken hostage by charlatans, by conmen, by fraudsters. Nairobi Hospital is going to serve the people of Kenya,” Ruto said.
Ruto pledged to protect the hospital as a crucial facility in the country, saying he would safeguard it from fraud.
“It is an institution that serves the public of Kenya, and we are going to defend the right of Nairobi Hospital to exist.”
“We are going to protect Nairobi Hospital from charlatans and crooks and conmen and fraudsters, and we are going to stop at nothing until we make Nairobi Hospital what it always has been, the premier hospital in the Republic of Kenya.”
