A section of Members of parliament from Nakuru County have threatened to rally residents against the county governor, if it fails to sign the memorandum of understanding over the procurement of medical equipments by the national government.
The four legislators said that they will petition residents to force Governor Kinuthia Mbugua into signing the MOU, should he show no sign of doing so.
Speaking on Tuesday morning at Nakuru town, the MPs, David Gikaria (Nakuru east), Kimani Ngunjiri (Bahati), Nelson Gaichuhie (Subukia) and Samuel Arama (Nakuru West), said that the kind of medical equipment being procured by the state are badly needed in hospitals within the county, and the governor should waste no time in signing the MOU.
“We want governor Mbugua to sign the MOU so that Nakuru can be among the first counties to receive the equipment, the most important thing to our people is getting the equipment and not how they will be procured,” said Ngunjiri.
“If he does not want to sign the agreement with the government in Nairobi, then we as members of parliament will ask our people to take action against him,” he added.
Gikaria said that it will be hypocritical for Mbugua to refuse to sign the MOU, because he has been talking about improving and modernizing public hospitals in the county.
“It will be easier and cheaper for the government to procure the equipment for all the counties together as opposed to each county doing its own procurement and if Mbugua is committed at transforming the health sector in the county then I do not see why he should fail to sign the MOU,” said Gikaria.
The council of governors has been reluctant to sign the MOU, with the state saying that they need to come up with their own MOU, which will be signed by the two parties.