Wednesday 27th May, 2026 11:39 PM|
Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi has claimed that the United States government has quietly orchestrated an agreement to fly individuals suspected of being exposed to Ebola into Nairobi.
Speaking during a TV interview on Wednesday night, May 27, 2026, Kituyi dismantled the state’s official public relations narrative regarding regional health operations, characterising the situation as a dangerous surrender of Kenyan sovereignty to Washington.
The controversy stems from an alarming escalation in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which Kituyi termed the single gravest threat currently facing East Africa.
“The biggest crisis in this region right now is the outbreak of a new strain of Ebola in Ituri in the eastern DRC,” Kituyi warned.
He fiercely rubbished recent government press releases regarding Kenya’s proactive health interventions, labelling the official media statements as absolute fabrication.
“Kenya government in the news you were reading is saying we are engaging with America talking about interaction activities – nonsense. That’s not the truth,” he declared.
Instead, the former presidential aspirant pulled back the curtain on what he asserts is the actual reality dictated by the White House.
“The truth has been announced by Washington – that the US has got the Kenyan government to open up CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] facilities in Nairobi for monitoring and observing Americans coming out of DRC – not Africans, not Kenyans, not anybody else,” Kituyi claimed.
A visibly frustrated Kituyi questioned the logical and medical soundness of the deal, demanding to know why the state would willingly risk bringing a lethal virus onto Kenyan soil to accommodate foreign nationals.
“Why are we offering Americans to fly people suspected to be in areas with Ebola to come to Kenya when they could make a quarantine area in DRC? What is the benefit to Kenya?” he asked.
Answering his own rhetorical question, Kituyi launched into a scathing critique of President William Ruto’s foreign policy, suggesting that the administration is suffering from a dangerous subservience to Western powers.
“Because ‘yes master, Uncle Sam’s children’, what America wants we will smile with in false teeth and pretend that this is alright with Kenyans,” Kituyi stated bitingly.
The veteran politician concluded by warning that the administration is entirely bypassing Kenya’s highly capable, homegrown professional institutions just to secure political favours from the West.
He insisted that if proper channels had been consulted, Kenya would never have agreed to act as a specialised quarantine hub for US citizens fleeing a biological crisis zone.
“If Ruto listened to professional advice – and there is institutional capacity in this country, both in medical services and Foreign Affairs – we would not be rushing to please America,” Kituyi concluded.
The explosive allegations are expected to ignite intense debate among Kenyans and trigger an immediate demand for answers from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the exact nature of Kenya’s operational agreements with the United States, as claimed by Mukhisa Kituyi.
