{"id":123065,"date":"2025-10-14T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/extortionist-thief-mp-clashes-with-duale-in-explosive-committee-showdown\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:07:20","slug":"extortionist-thief-mp-clashes-with-duale-in-explosive-committee-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/extortionist-thief-mp-clashes-with-duale-in-explosive-committee-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Extortionist, thief!\u2019 MP clashes with Duale in explosive committee showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 14 \u2014 A parliamentary committee session on health descended into a shouting match on Tuesday following a heated exchange between Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale and Kitutu Chache South MP Anthony Kibagendi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The confrontation, captured on video and widely shared online, showed the two leaders trading accusations, with Duale repeatedly calling the lawmaker an \u201cextortionist\u201d and \u201ca thief,\u201d while Kibagendi accused the minister of evading accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are the cause of it. You are an extortionist,\u201d Duale shouted, visibly agitated, as he vowed to have the MP charged in court.<\/p>\n<p>Kibagendi, equally defiant, fired back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuale, you cannot intimidate me. I fear no one. We are not your children,\u201d he charged.<\/p>\n<p>The confrontation erupted as the National Assembly Health Committee questioned Duale over alleged corruption in the Health Ministry and possible conflicts of interest involving the registration of private hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Duale dismissed the claims, maintaining that he did not own any hospital and accusing unnamed committee members of using parliamentary oversight as a tool for \u201cextortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis nonsense you are bringing to this country must stop,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can charge me if you wish \u2014 I have nothing to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As tempers flared, other committee members moved to restore calm, prompting intervention from Committee Chairperson James Nyikal (Seme MP), who urged both sides to maintain decorum and focus on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us maintain order,\u201d Nyikal said, directing that the proceedings continue <em>\u201cwithout personal remarks.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The session later resumed, with Duale vowing to petition the Speaker of the National Assembly for Kibagendi\u2019s removal from the committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will write to the Speaker \u2014 this gentleman should not be in this committee,\u201d Duale declared.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 14 \u2014 A parliamentary committee session on health descended into a shouting match on Tuesday following a heated exchange between Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale and Kitutu Chache South MP Anthony Kibagendi. The confrontation, captured on video and widely shared online, showed the two leaders trading accusations, with Duale repeatedly calling the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}