Uhuru's appointment of Mugenda to chair Kenyatta University hospital board challenged

Health CS Sicily Kariuki, KU Hospital Board Chairperson Prof Olive Mugenda and PS Ministry of Health Susan Mochache during the commissioning of the board at the ministry office in Nairobi on April 8, 2019. [Jonah Onyango/Standard]

The appointment of Olive Mugenda as a non-executive chairperson of Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital board has been challenged in court.

Human Rights activist Okiya Omtatah yesterday filed an application challenging the constitutional and legal validity of the appointment by President Uhuru Kenyatta.