Aden Duale, the Cabinet Secretary, must have convinced himself that not coming forth with an explanation as to why the government okayed the centre would help his cause. That approach might have been fine in pre-2024 Kenya.
The Kenya of today demands answers, and if they get none, they easily make up their own, normally at the expense of the Kenya Kwanza administration.
It is not lost on a well-informed population that the first pieces of the information came from a report in the New York Times as well as subsequent reports about the details as to when the health teams will be flown into place.
The Ebola fiasco is a classic example of what happens when administrators assume that the public should not be carried along on such a life-and-death matter.
But all is not lost. The Ministry of Health has an opportunity to make the case as to why it allowed the Americans to set up the base in our military barracks.
The public need an assurance, by respected medical science researchers, that their lives are not in danger.
Quote of the day: “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.” —Czech author Franz Kafka died on June 3, 1924
