President William Ruto has defended the arrest of Nairobi Hospital officials, saying he was approached by senior doctors and professionals from the hospital, asking him to save the hospital. The president described Nairobi Hospital as a premier medical institution in the country and said he would not allow it to be ‘taken hostage by fraudsters.’“As president of the Republic of Kenya and as patron of Nairobi Hospital, senior doctors and professionals from Nairobi Hospital approached me to save Nairobi Hospital from conmen, fraudsters and charlatans who wanted to expropriate Nairobi Hospital,” he said. Ruto told the opposition, who had condemned the arrest of the Nairobi hospital officials, to find something else to do. “There is no way I am going to allow Nairobi Hospital to be taken over, taken hostage by charlatans, by conmen, by fraudsters. Nairobi Hospital is going to serve the people of Kenya,” Ruto said.

Source: The Star March 17, 2026 22:12 UTC