Jacaranda Hotel in Nairobi. Photo/the-star.co.ke
Nairobi’s Jacaranda Hotel has denied supplying food to a conference at KICC where guests were taken ill after eating, last week.
The guests including Treasury CS Henry Rotich were addmited in hospital with cholera like symptoms last week.’
Sales manager Liz Tapawa on Wednesday said the hotel does not offer catering services to KICC and Rotich has never been at the hotel.
She said the hotel is still operational and none of its staff involved in handling food, or guests have been affected by cholera or any illness.
"We received the information from social media last week that our hotel was involved in catering at an event at KICC where CS Rotich was allegedly taken ill after eating. KICC has its appointed caterers and we are not among them," Tapawa said.
The administrator said only three security guards complained of illness after returning to resume work on Monday.
"No one has confirmed to us or anyone that they have the disease [cholera]. They (those infected) had not taken any food from the hotel and they have no interaction with the kitchen or where food is handled," she said.
On Tuesday, Health CS Cleopa Mailu ordered closure of the facility as part of the move fight cholera in the city.