The swift sacking of a Principal Secretary and other top Health ministry officials over the new Sh4 billion Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) scandal involving a botched tender for the supply of treated mosquito nets is an emphatic demonstration of the government’s commitment to fighting the endemic public sector graft. The Kemsa board has also been disbanded.
True, it is too early to say what sins of omission or commission these officials might have committed. But this is a laudable way of dealing with the monster of corruption. Something went wrong under the watch of the new Health PS and such suspected lapses must be firmly dealt with.
