Former senior adviser to President William Ruto, Moses Kuria/HANDOUTFormer senior adviser to President William Ruto, Moses Kuria, has now faulted Health CS Aden Duale over his remarks on August 1, 2025, threatening to revoke the citizenship of Mediheal Hospitals founder Swarup Mishra.
Kuria, in a statement, wondered what investors will think of the country when a senior officer who is not in charge of Immigration threatens to revoke citizenship.
He said this erodes investor confidence, further questioning the essence of having due process and what happens to it.
The former CS also wondered how the government would create jobs for young people when investors come across such utterances.
“Sometimes I wonder. When a senior government official who is not in charge of immigration says we will cancel citizenship and deport so and so, do we ponder to think what investors will think of our country? Are we that unorthodox? What of investors’ confidence? What of due process? What of our credit rating? At this rate, from where shall we get jobs for these children of ours? Gracious Lord, hear us,” Kuria said.
His reaction comes days after Duale said that some of the victims in the Kidney transplant saga involving the Hospital founded by the former Kesses MP had disappeared.
He further claimed that some of them have been paid off to keep quiet.
“Young people whose kidneys were removed, some of them have disappeared, and we have evidence. Some of them were paid,” Duale said.
He insisted that the matter of organ harvesting is a very serious issue in Kenya and internationally.
The CS said he has delivered a report to both houses of Parliament, where Kenyans were abused and given little money for their kidneys.
Duale added that some foreigners were also treated at the hospitals using the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF).
“If it means us revoking that citizenship because it is not by birth, we will revoke it, close your hospitals and deport you (Mishra). Those who are his friends tell him. We will use the Citizenship and Immigration Act.”
On July 29, Dr Swarup Mishra insisted that no Kenyan kidney ever left the country and all foreign patients arrived in Kenya with their own donors.
He spoke in regards to questionable kidney transplants by the hospital.
“All foreign transplant patients brought their donors. No Kenyan organ has ever been exported. Not even one,” he said.
“The medical facility is not involved in donor selection, transaction, or any form of influence, pressure, bribing, or commercialisation. We do not even suggest donors to patients.”
Dr Mishra was responding to a damning report by a government-appointed task force that investigated 476 kidney transplants conducted at Mediheal between 2018 and 2024.
The report accused the hospital of violating transplant regulations and recommendedthe prosecution of Dr Mishra and three other senior doctors.
