More than 100 Members of Parliament had by
Wednesday signed a motion for the impeachment of Health Cabinet Secretary
Sicily Kariuki.
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| Health CS Sicily Kariuki briefing the media |
The Constitution requires at least a
third of the 349 members of the National Assembly to append their signatures to
meet the threshold.
"We are progressing well and
members from across the political divide have signed the petition," Wajir
woman rep Fatuma Gedi told the Star.
"It will be the first matter the
House will deal with when we resume sittings."
The MPs, in the petition, want the CS
held liable for "abuse of office and cross violation of rules and
regulations".
The proponents of the impeachment motion
want the minister punished following the treatment errors at the Kenyatta
National Hospital.
Last week on Friday, Sicily announced that
KNH boss Lily Koros had been sent on compulsory leave.This followed the incident where doctors
at the hospital performed a brain surgery on a wrong patient. Koros and an officer in charge of
clinical affairs were sent home to pave way for investigations.
But even as the MPs were signing the
petition, National Assembly's committee on Health has said it will open an
inquiry into the KNH surgery saga.
Committee chairman Sabina Chege,
accompanied by over 12 members, called on the MPs to give her committee a chance
to investigate the matter before resorting to impeaching the CS.
She addressed a press conference on the
sidelines of the post-election seminar which ended
She said the committee will invite the
CS, Koros, the doctor who performed the surgery, and the board among others to
shed light on what transpired.
"We should not be quick to judge,
let us allow investigations to take place after a week we will write a report
and table it in Parliament." "Colleagues should, therefore, give
us a chance to investigate the matter," Chege said.(Source: The Star)