The national healthcare institutions and professionals licencing body, the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council, has ordered the closure and revocation of the operating licence of Sipili Maternity and Nursing Home in Laikipia County.

This follows a chilling expose by NTV on Wednesday evening dubbed “doctored evil” where various gross allegations, key among them sexual assault, were made against the proprietor, George Mbugua and some members of the hospital.

The council says it took the action after carefully considering f this matter, the nature of the allegations and the need to protect the public, pending the hearing and determination of the matter.

“Consequently, you are hereby directed to close the facility with immediate effect and organize in consultation with patients /relatives to transfer all the in-patients to other facilities of their choice within 24 hours,” said KMPDC boss Dr Daniel Yumbya.

He further directed the proprietor to appear before a joint inquiry of various health regulatory bodies on Monday, 28th February 2022 at 10.00 am at the KMPDC office complex, 3rd floor, where this matter will be heard and determined.

Dr Yumbya directed the Laikipia County Executive Committee Member for Health Services to coordinate and ensure a smooth transfer of all the affected patients to their alternative facilities of choice.

He also requested the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) CEO Dr Peter Kamunyo to ensure that any of the affected patients who are covered under the NHIF are facilitated appropriately.

In 2015, quack doctor James Mugo Ndichu-alias-Mugo wa Wairimu first came to the public after he was exposed by NTV investigative journalist Dennis Okari, in an exposé that detailed how he sedated and sexually assaulted his patients.

He was arrested and charged, but the case collapsed because the witnesses involved refused to testify in the case. In 2018, he was yet again exposed by NTV, but this time around he had moved to a different clinic within Githurai.

In 2020, Mugo wa Wairimu was handed an 11 years sentence after he was found guilty of running an unregistered medical clinic. However, Nairobi Resident Magistrate Martha Nanzushi gave Mugo the option of paying a fine of Sh1,420,000.

Senior United Kingdom military officers will be visiting Kenya in the coming weeks to look into a possible coverup of a murder case involving a Kenyan woman and British soldiers.

The body of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru was found at the Lions Court Hotel in Nanyuki town, Laikipia County two months after she disappeared in March 2012.

The identity of the British soldier who allegedly stabbed the woman to death before dumping her body in a hotel septic tank is widely known in the army, but no action has ever been taken against him.

A fellow soldier had gone to the “proper people” immediately after hearing a squaddie confess to the killing but said he was told to “shut up” when he reported it and no action was taken.

British High Commissioner to Kenya, Jane Marriott in a statement said the UK was fully cooperating with the investigation and will help in any way it could.

In 2012, she said, the UK’s Special Investigation Branch carried out initial enquiries in Kenya, including providing information about British personnel to Kenyan police.

While expressing outrage and concern about the tragic death, the High Commissioner said no further investigation requests were made by Kenyan authorities at that time.

“Following the conclusion of a Kenyan inquest in 2019, we understand that the Kenyan authorities are looking into the murder. We will support that Kenyan police investigation,” she noted.

She emphasized that the conduct of the UK military in Kenya is incredibly important in enhancing bilateral relations but where there are issues, the UK have and would address them.

However, an inquest was held in Kenya in 2019 in which a judge ruled the mother was ‘murdered by British soldiers’ but no subsequent action was taken by the army.

The government has resolved to deploy special forces and equipment in the troubled areas of Laikipia West sub-County.

Cabinet Secretary for Interior, Dr Fred Matiang’i in a statement also said the government would heighten operation in the region.

He regretted that despite the government’s efforts to enforce peace and stability in the region, hardcore bandits continue to wreak havoc.

“Unfortunately, innocent lives have been lost and many others injured in attacks that have also occasioned the destruction of private property and loss of livestock,” he stated.

At the same time, he ordered the eviction of non-residents of Laikipia County and its environs in a bid to tame the heightened threats caused by the hardcore bandits.

On Sunday, heavily armed gunmen shot and killed three people and injured one in an attempted cattle rustling at Mbogoini Village near Laikipia Nature Conservancy, in Laikipia West.

The government has in the past announced a raft of measures to address insecurity in the County, among them imposing a 6 pm to 6 am curfew and gazetting it as a security operation zone.