{"id":14002,"date":"2020-09-07T18:34:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T18:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=14002"},"modified":"2020-09-07T18:34:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T18:34:33","slug":"i-blew-the-whistle-on-kemsa-scandal-cs-kagwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/i-blew-the-whistle-on-kemsa-scandal-cs-kagwe","title":{"rendered":"I blew the whistle on Kemsa scandal- CS Kagwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Judah Ben-Hur\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe <strong>(pictured above)<\/strong>\u00a0has said that he was the whistleblower in the\u00a0procurement scandal\u00a0that\u00a0recently plagued Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) falling under his Ministry.\u00a0Speaking to KTN News, the CS said he was responsible for calling DCI detectives to commence investigations in the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am the one who spoke to them to come here and start the investigations in the Ministry of Health, in our parastatals,\u201d said CS Kagwe told KTN News in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The CS who was last week\u00a0grilled over the scandal stated that the danger of corruption is that it creates costs that are unnecessary, thus, increases the cost of health care, medicine and that of maintaining our system.\u00a0While being probed by the\u00a0Senate Committee on Health, the CS pushed the blames on the doorstep of the agency after he denied giving instructions that led to the breach\u00a0of procurement procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we are fighting this dragon, we are fighting it in order to keep the costs down. Amongst the objectives is to overcome that corrupt environment,\u201d explained the CS.\u00a0When being grilled, Kemsa CEO Jonah Manjari told the committee that he received instructions from CS Kagwe and his Principal Secretary Susan Mochache. But Mr Manjari, later on, changed tune saying that he never acted on the instructions of the two officers.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kagwe who took office in February 2020, has also stated that the cost of certain items in the ministry has dramatically reduced since he took over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince I got here, one of the achievements I can truly say is an achievement in the ministry is reducing the cost of those things by over 50 per cent. That is money that can now go into medicines,\u201d said Kagwe.\u00a0He also painted a picture of how deep the corruption is saying it would take a multilevel approach to do it. According to Kagwe, the war can be won on the audit level, the financial level and the mental level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has to be a mental shift. People have got to believe that they can come to the office, do their job, without being corrupt without trying to see what they can get for themselves and provide service from the people,\u201d said the Health CS.\u00a0When asked about what he thought about the people who called out for his resignation,\u00a0Kagwe\u00a0says that it was their right especially the genuine Kenyans who were disappointed by the shady dealings in the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t hold a grudge. If they were doing it for political purposes, politicians do that. I think it will be very na\u00efve of me especially with my political experience. It will be very na\u00efve to imagine that\u2019s not what they are going to do. If they don\u2019t do that, what else are they going to do?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Judah Ben-Hur\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe (pictured above)\u00a0has said that he was the whistleblower in the\u00a0procurement scandal\u00a0that\u00a0recently plagued Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) falling under his Ministry.\u00a0Speaking to KTN News, the CS said he was responsible for calling DCI detectives to commence investigations in the Ministry. \u201cI am the one who spoke to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8],"tags":[5271,5563,672,447],"class_list":["post-14002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-covid-19-funds","tag-jonah-manjari","tag-kemsa","tag-mutahi-kagwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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