OPINION: Governor Kihika Can’t Keep Blaming the Past, Nakuru’s Healthcare Rot Is Her Mess Now
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Governor Susan Kihika is at it again, dodging blame like a seasoned politician.
The recent revelation that Sh1.8 million worth of expired drugs were rotting away in Nakuru Level Five Hospital’s stores is a disgrace.
But instead of owning up to the mess, Kihika did what she does best: pointed fingers at her predecessor, Lee Kinyanjui.
According to Auditor General Nancy Gathungu’s report, the expired drugs, discovered during an October 2024 inspection, exposed a complete collapse of stock monitoring and procurement systems.
The hospital kept ordering drugs that were about to expire, wasting public funds while patients struggled to access life-saving medicine.
When confronted with this scandal, Kihika rushed to social media with a weak excuse , claiming the expired drugs were HIV/AIDS program drugs that became obsolete due to a change in treatment protocols, and that they “expired before 2022.” Let that sink in.
Two years into her tenure, she’s still singing the same tired tune: “It’s not my fault.”
But here’s the kicker the audit happened in 2024. Those drugs were still in hospital stores under her watch.
It doesn’t matter if they expired in 2022, 2019, or 1902 , why were they still sitting there in 2024, untouched, unmonitored, and unaccounted for? Who was supposed to clear them out?
Was it her predecessor or the hospital management she has been in charge of for two solid years?
Blaming Lee Kinyanjui for this mess is like a lazy student failing an exam and saying, “It’s the teacher I had two years ago.” At what point does Kihika actually start doing the job she was elected to do?
Running a county isn’t a relay race where you just pass the baton of blame, it’s about fixing broken systems.
And let’s be real this is more than just an issue of expired drugs. It’s about leadership failure.
The Auditor General’s report clearly shows that Nakuru Level Five Hospital continued to order drugs nearing expiry even after Kihika took office.
So what’s her excuse for that? Did Kinyanjui also sneak into the hospital at night and place those reckless orders?
Kihika needs to quit the blame game and roll up her sleeves. Nakuru’s healthcare system is on life support, and the person holding the oxygen tank is not Lee Kinyanjui, it’s Susan Kihika.
She’s the governor now. The mess is hers. The failures are hers. And until she accepts that, Nakuru residents will keep paying the price, not with money, but with their health and lives.
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