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12 Monday, March 23, 2020 www.pd.co.ke // www.epaper.peopledaily.co.ke NO.07029 .HQ\D·V )5(( 1HZVSDSHU Stay home, Kenyans told Partial lockdown:Eight more new cases confirmed as Health minister Kagwe announces tougher measures, including mandatory quarantine, suspension of international News Beat PG 2 flights, ban on religious gatherings, restricting funerals and Rogue governor closure of bars to tame coronavirus spread PG 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 13 who has put hundreds at risk to be charged Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi 61%"5&#: Kagwe (right) /6.#&34 AFFECTED SECTORS with the National Emergency Response 365 cases Committee being traced for addresses the press screening in Kenya. at Harambee House, Nairobi, yesterday. At least 322,625 PD/JOHN OCHIENG people have been diagnosed with virus worldwide, 96,006 Eight more cases Mandatory quarantine Churches, mosques have recovered while 1 confirmed making 15. 2 at own cost. 3 closed. 13,746 have died. $07*%)05-*/&4 > 719 > 0800721316 > 0729471414 > 0732353535 4 Weddings stopped, 5 All international 6 All bars ordered Gideon Saburi, Kilifi Deputy Governor funerals restricted. flights suspended. closed. NEWS BEAT PEOPLE DAILY / Monday, March 23, 2020 CORONA CRISIS *RYHUQRUIDFHVFKDUJHVIRU IDLOXUHWRVHOITXDUDQWLQH Health officers trace Kilifi Deputy Governor people suspected to Gideon Saburi is said to have come into contact Have travelled to Germany mid %OHDNIXWXUH with the Kilifi DG February Fri, Mar 6: Jetted back via by Reuben Mwambingu Amsterdam. IRUIORZHU @reubenmwambingu Sat, Mar 7: Met a group of Kilifi Deputy Governor Gideon Rabai MCAs at Royal Hotel in VHFWRUVWDII Saburi, who has tested positive for Mazeras in Rabai. coronavirus, will face court charges by Kirera Mwiti Sat, Mar 7: Had breakfast when he is discharged from hospi- with the MCAs before proceeding @PeopleDailyKe tal for refusing to isolate himself af- for a burial of the late former ter coming back from a foreign trip. Deputy Governor Kenneth Kamto’s Flower farms in Naivasha have Without naming him, Health bodyguard. warned that they could be unable Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe to afford salaries for their workers in said that a “senior government of- Wed, Mar 18: Accompanied the coming month as the crisis in the ficial from Kilifi” who refused to go his driver at Karama Mbuzi in sector deepened due to coronavirus into self-quarantine for the man- Majengo, Mombasa where they had a sumptuous meal of Ugali pandemic. datory 14 days would be arraigned and mishkaki. This came as the government in court to face charges of willfully promised flower farmers support in exposing people to the disease. Kilifi Deputy Governor Gideon Saburi at a past event. PD/FILE Thurs, Mar 19: He was the wake of the viral disease that has “We have observed there are spotted in a night club in Bamburi killed thousands globally. those who aren’t observing self county after refusing to do so, on ar- Day function in Rabai. where he mingled with a number Already, over 2,000 workers have quarantine protocols. National rival from abroad. And we will contin- He organised a breakfast meeting of revellers. been sent on a two-week paid leave Emergency Response Council ue doing so to protect other Kenyans with the MCAs before proceeding for by respective farms due to the col- (NERC) has decided that those from the contagious virus,” the CS the burial of former Deputy Governor Fri, Mar 20: Again alongside his driver they took refreshments lapse of the Dutch auction, which who violate self-quarantine pro- said during a media briefing. Kenneth Kamto’s bodyguard within at Cafesserie-Mombasa within takes over 50 per cent of exports from tocol will be quarantined for the the same Rabai constituency. Rabai Kilifi County’s communications Nyali centre where he also the country. full 14 days and thereafter arrested department declined to comment MP William Kamoti accompanied him. The deputy governor would later mingled with a number of In the last one week, some flower and charged in accordance with the on the matter and said the Ministry revellers for several hours before return to the Royal Hotel in Mazeras farms have resorted to destroying Public Health Act. This will apply of Health in Nairobi would commu- he left for his house in Bamburi. flowers worth millions of shillings to a senior government official who nicate. and continue with meetings with the every day as the product cannot reach MCAs. It was on this day that CS refused to observe this protocol and Governor Amason Kingi has con- Mutahi Kagwe announced that the EU market. was forcibly quarantined. Upon firmed that he also came into direct the government is tracking a According to Naivasha Sub-county the completion of the period given contact with the patient and he has Close contact suspected patient in Kilifi who commissioner Mathioya Mbogo, the by medical authorities he will be as a result gone into quarantine since He attended the women’s day func- happened to be the DG. flower sector is very critical to the charged,” the minister said during March 19, 2020 as protocol demands. tion at Rabai where Governor Kingi country’s economy and the national a press briefing outside Harambee He said the emergency response and other Kilifi leaders were also pres- It was on this same day Friday that government would release support House (the Office of the President), team visited his home and collected ent. He is said to have attended three Kagwe warned that the government measures. Nairobi, yesterday. specimen but the tests turned out other burials and two weddings where will not hesitate to forcibly quaran- “We have had several meetings negative. he is reported to have interacted with tine anyone who fails to abide by with the farmers and assured them of Protect Kenyans “Despite turning negative, corona- close to a 1,000 people, according to a instructions outlined by the gov- government support as they support And now health authorities in virus protocol dictate that I continue source privy to his movement after the ernment in regards to Covid-19 hundreds of families directly and in- Kilifi are tracing people suspected with self quarantine till the expiry of Germany trip. containment measures. directly,” he said. to have come into contact with Sa- 14 days. I will fully comply,” said the In one of the burials he attended he But according to sources, at- He noted that Naivasha was home buri who came back from Germany Governor in a statement. was photographed in close contact tempts to quarantine the official to tens of flower farms warning that and allegedly refused to go into self- He added that the coronavirus with Lands Chief Administrative Sec- had failed as he resisted vehemently. sending workers home would lead quarantine. emergency response teams have retary Gideon Mung’aro as they shared He was reportedly approached by to social disorder and rise in crime in The deputy governor is said to already been deployed across the the high table. health officials where his samples and around the town. have interacted with several staff county and are tracing each and ev- On Wednesday afternoon of were taken and advised to quaran- The proprietor Maridadi flower members of the County Assembly ery contact. March 18, Saburi is said to have tine but he dramatically declined. farm Jack Kneppers said they would in his office and further went on The deputy governor is said to accompanied his driver to a place On watching the CS’s live address, be making a major decision this week. to attend a local burial where he is have arrived in the country on March called Karama Mbuzi in Majengo he reportedly left his home in Bam- “Early in the week we sent 150 feared to have come in contact with 6 from Germany via Amsterdam and area of Mombasa where they had a buri and spent the night at a friend’s workers home as we monitor the several other people. he is said to have met Governor Kingi meal of Ugali and mshikaki. house in Mtwapa. situation and nothing has changed Health officials from the Kilifi and senior county officials as well as The following day on March 19, he However, Governor Kingi report- was spotted in a nightclub in Bam- meaning we could send more home,” County emergency response team interacting with hundreds of resi- edly dispatched county askaris to buri area where he mingled freely said the farmer, who has employed had picked him up from his resi- dents in social gatherings including track him down and he was forci- with a number of revellers. bly arrested before he was taken to 750 workers. dence and took him to an isolation burials and wedding ceremonies in On Friday, March 20, again along- Coast Provincial General Hospital in According to the Kenya Export, centre. Mombasa, Kwale and Kilifi. side his driver, they took refresh- Mombasa where he is said to have Floriculture, Horticulture and Allied On Friday, the minister said a On March 7, a day after arriving ments at Cafesserie Mombasa within been hospitalised in isolation. Workers Union secretary general suspected Covid-19 case had been back, Saburi met a group of Rabai David Omulama, over 15 farms had Nyali centre where he also mingled His driver, who had accompanied forcibly quarantined in Mombasa. Members of County Assembly at with a number of revellers for several him in all his movements since he already sent part of their workers “Today, we have been forced to Royal Hotel in Mazeras for prepara- home. hours before he left for his house in jetted back is also quarantined after quarantine an individual in Kilifi tions of the International Women’s Bamburi.