I will not resign, Health minister Mailu says

Health Cabinet Secretary Dr Cleopa Mailu during a Press conference at Afya House on October 28, 2016. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO 

By STELLAR MURUMBA, smurumba@ke.nationmedia.com

In Summary

• Responding to calls from MPs, Kenya National Union of Nurses, Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union, and the larger public, Dr Mailu said that some of the issues raised in the leaked audit report extend all the way back before his tenure and he is here to deal with them.
• “At the moment I am not considering resignation,” said Dr Mailu.
• “This scandal is President Kenyatta’s scandal. He must deal with it as such. He must tell the country what he knows, when he knew it and what he did when he knew it,” said Raila Odinga in a concurrent media briefing.