Kenya’s Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe came under fire on Monday from members of a parliamentary health committee, who demanded that he respond to allegations that the bulk of PPE donations given by the Jack Ma Foundation in March were illegally smuggled to neighboring Tanzania.
Kagwe denied the claims broadcast last Sunday night in the blockbuster documentary “#COVID19Millionaires,” by NTV investigative journalist Dennis Okari, that a stunning 75% of the masks and other safety materials were sold. “We can account with our laboratories the reagents that we got from Jack Ma and how they have been used,” he told MPs.
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