President William Ruto’s Cabinet Secretary has reportedly undergone surgery as confirmed by the Senate Speaker Amason Kingi after she skipped a grilling session by Senators.
According to reports, Lands Cabinet Secretary Alice Wahome had been summoned to appear before Senate to respond to questions in regards to her ministry of Lands.
However, the Cabinet Secretary informed Senate Speaker Amason Kingi that she would not be able to physically present herself at the chambers to respond to questions from the Senators during grilling.
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According to Kingi, he received information that the CS had suffered swollen eyes and thus could not see properly and had undergone an optical surgery not more than three days ago, even as questions lingered over why she did not make the communication in advance.
“I have since received a communication from Cabinet Secretary Lands- Alice Wahome that she will not be able to attend today’s session for purposes of responding to questions concerning her ministry because she is indisposed.”
While explaining the source of the communication that was received late, the Speaker said that he had received the information from Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Lands Nixon Korir who informed him of Alice Wahome’s situation.
“I had a phone call discussion principal secretary in the ministry who explained what the problem is. The honourable CS underwent eye surgery three days ago but by yesterday, she was willing to appear today but woke up with a swollen eye this morning, she cannot even see.”
Among the questions that the CS was to respond to was the controversial loss of over 360 title deeds made public via a Gazette notice and the mix-up in statements from the Ministry in regard to the same
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“That is a very valid reason honourable members, and I think that we will have to defer all the questions that were supposed to be responded to by the CS. That leaves us with only the CS of Education whom am told is present,” Kingi directed.