CS Mutahi Kagwe: My family has also been affected by Covid-19 protocols.
By: joan Wangari
Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Covid-19 has affected the lives of all Kenyans. It has affected how we interact, our way of life, the economy and also the things we do. Corona virus has led to families not being familiar anymore. Protocols such as cessation of movement, social distancing and no physical contact has greatly put a constraint on our socials lives. Interactions between friends and families has become very casual as close interactions are highly interactions. Cultures such as handshaking are things of the past and we may probably have to live without these in born cultures for good.
Health Cabinet secretary, Mutahi Kagwe has disclosed little known details of how this pandemic has affected his own family. The ministry’s head shared during an interview by a local TV station, the strain that the measures put in place by his institution to combat Covid have had on his family.
Mr. Kagwe noted that his son was placed in quarantine in accordance with the preventive measures put in place. He said that at the time his son had just arrived from the United Kingdom and therefore placed himself in self quarantine.
“My son was in self quarantine in my house, we were actually talking through the door.” Mr Mutahi said during the interview.
The CS said that it was not comfortable for his son to be quarantined for 14 days but he was forced to inorder to ensure the safety of his family and other Kenyans. His rapper son is a first year student at Nottingham University.
He also noted that his niece had been quarantined at a hotel as she arrived after mandatory quarantine had been put in place. His niece stayed in mandatory quarantine for 21 days and the press even asked about.
“I remember during one of the pressers someone asked that ’I hear some people are being forced to go to mandatory quarantine and others are not’ and of course I knew what they were talking about, but my niece was in quarantine and he stayed there for 21 days.” The CS narrated.
He went ahead and disclosed that his very own mother is stuck in Nairobi due to the cessation of movement.
“You know even my own mother has been affected by this, she has been in Nairobi since the ban and she normally tells me that I am the one who made her not be able to move.” The minister stated.
He said that seeing people trying to defy the system is highly frustrating because if the people move out of Nairobi the cases will rise and more people will be affected.
