George Koimburi's Family Blocks DCI from Accessing MP at Karen Hospital
- Juja MP George Koimburi is hospitalised at The Karen Hospital, Nairobi, where he was rushed after being picked unconscious in a coffee plantation in Kiambu county
- National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula decried the MP's family blocking his colleagues and DCI investigators from seeing him in his hospital bed
- Wetang'ula seemed to take offence at the family for being deliberately selective, having allowed former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua and his allies to visit the MP
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National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula has revealed the barriers allegedly created by the family of Juja MP George Koimburi in hospital.
Source: Twitter
Where is George Koimburi admitted?
Koimburi is currently admitted to The Karen Hospital, where medics are striving to restore his health after reportedly being found dumped inside a coffee plantation in Kiambu county.
Wetang'ula, while notifying members of the National Assembly on the well-being of the MP, shared that the lawmaker's family had instructed the hospital not to allow any visitors in.
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Koimburi's colleagues and investigators from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) could not be allowed near the MP on Tuesday, May 27, this despite former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua and his close allies getting access to him the previous day.
The Speaker revealed that Narok West Gabriel Tongoyo whom he had sent to visit Koimburi was turned away.
Tongoyo, who also chairs the National Assembly's departmental committee on Administration and Internal Security, revealed that the family had instructed the hospital not to allow in select people.
Wetang'ula seemed to take issue with the family allowing Gachagua and his allies to visit and locking out the others who wanted to call on their kin.
"I have been advised by the hospital where he is admitted, that the family had given strict instructions not to allow visitors, although in the media we saw some visitors around the member, but we have been told that they are not allowing visitors, including officers from DCI who wanted to visit to find out what may have happened, I'm told they were turned away," Wetang'ula said.
Regardless of the situation, the Speaker instructed Tongoyo to return to The Karen Hospital, and liaise with Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja and Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen in probing Koimburi's alleged predicament.
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Tongoyo will be expected to brief the house on Wednesday, May 28.
At the same time, Wetang'ula asked the state investigators not to leave any stone unturned as they probe the circumstances of Koimburi's alleged abduction, further counselling the lawmakers to be wary of their security after the Juja MP's situation and the murder of Kasipul MP Ong'ondo Were.
"With that as it may, I have directed the chairman of the security committee to visit the Honorable member in hospital, I hope you will be allowed to see him, so that tomorrow you will update the house on the situation of our member," Wetang'ula.
Did George Koimburi evade arrest?
Meanwhile, as the police probed the matter of Koimburi, they revealed that the MP had been slated for arrest on Friday, May 23, the day he went missing.
He was to be apprehended on land fraud charges following the sanction by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP).
Upon realising that he was being sought, Koimburi swiftly boarded a motorcycle and departed from an event he was officiating in his constituency, subsequently turning off his phone.
Meanwhile, his driver was taken to the DCI headquarters, where he provided a statement before being released.
Proofreading by Asher Omondi, copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
