LETTER JOSEPHINE MBURU WROTE THAT FORCED RUTO TO FIRE HER

On Monday this week, His Excellency the Head of State president William Ruto cracked the whip and sent packing the Principal Secretary for Health in charge of Public Health and Professional Standards, Dr Josephine Mburu.

Though it remained unclear the real readings why she was fired, it has now emerged that she had in January this year written a letter to the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) in an apparent attempt to bungle a tendering process.

“In a letter dated February 21 this year, Dr. Mburu wrote to KEMSA CEO Terry Ramadhani pointing out what she said were inconsistencies in specifications for the nets in the Global Fund tender.”the Standard newspaper reports on Wednesday.

This letter KEMSA CEO Terry Ramadhani is said to have led to some changes that did not sit well with Global Fund which made them withdraw from the government gendering process and they decided to do the process themselves.

This saw the Kenyan government lose close to half a billion of money which did not sit well with the Head of State as well as the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Ministry of Health.

At the same time, it has emerged that the PS received pressure to change and favour the tendering process for a top and influential politician and the wife of another politicians who is as well influential.

Source: Standard