Police in Bomet will take stern action against an officer who aided the escape of a man from Nairobi whose samples tested positive for coronavirus.
The officer, whose identity is yet to be revealed, took a Land Cruiser to ferry his diabetic relative from Nairobi to Bomet.
The 55-year-old man was admitted to Longisa Referral Hospital on May 4, was diagnosed with diabetes and died the next day.
Following the death, samples were taken to Kemri in Kisumu which were positive for coronavirus.
Already 16 members of the family have been put in quarantine at Kaplong Girls High School in Sotik.
On Wednesday, a furious Governor Hillary Barchok said the office of the county commissioner had taken up the matter with a view to taking disciplinary measures against the officer.
“We are not mandated to talk about the issue of Covid-19 since the national government is the sole body giving out such information but we have called you here today to express our disappointment over the manner in which an officer acted by sneaking in someone from Nairobi,” Barchok said.
“These are the simple things we are told to observe but we take them casually, and worse still is that a public servant is the one committing that offence.”
The governor stated that county surveillance teams were doing mob-ups and contact tracing at Kagawet village in Chepalungu, which is the home of the deceased.
“Let us remain alert and adhere to the guidelines provided. We now have a case here in Bomet and we have to be serious on what we do,” he noted.
Without stating the number, the governor pointed out that some medical workers who attended to the deceased had been put under supervised quarantine.
Edited by Henry Makori
