Former CS Rashid Echesa Rushed to Hospital in Critical Condition
On Saturday morning, March 30, Rashid Echesa, the ex-Sports Cabinet Secretary, was urgently taken to a hospital in Nairobi in a serious condition.
As per attorney Danstan Omari, who communicated with Kenyans.co.ke, the ex-Cabinet Secretary was experiencing heavy bleeding from a surgical incision that had been operated on a week before his arrest.
Omari additionally stated that Echesa had a scheduled doctor’s appointment on Friday for a follow-up and assistance with his surgery wound, which had not yet fully healed. Nevertheless, the police declined to release him.
“We went with a letter from Karen hospital where he had undergone surgery and was to be brought here for review and the police could not release him on bail,” he noted.
“Today in the morning it became so bad, that he had to be rushed here. He was bleeding profusely from the wound.”
Echesa is presently undergoing medical care and is awaiting a report from the doctor’s evaluation to ascertain his condition, which could potentially necessitate readmission to the hospital.
“We are waiting to hear what the doctor says, then we will be able to know if he can be released on cash bail or re-admitted, whatever the doctor’s prescription will be,” Omari added.
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Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale was among those who supported Echesa’s release on Friday. Khalwale spent the afternoon at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters on Kiambu Road, where he insisted that the former Cabinet Secretary be freed.
“I’m the Kakamega Senator and the Government Majority whip. I come here on the capacity given to me by Kakamega County to ask the National Government to release Rashid to me,” Khalwale stated on Friday.
“I’ve spent the whole of this afternoon at DCI Headquarters in Nairobi and later at the Muthaiga Police Station. I was to take him to hospital. The former CS is visibly unwell,” Khalwale noted.
Echesa was apprehended on Thursday, March 28, after allegations arose linking him to a criminal group accused of extorting and blackmailing Kakamega Governor Fernandes Barasa.
The apprehension occurred after a man believed to be overseeing Echesa’s affairs being brought before the court on accusations of coercing Ksh240 million from the Kakamega governor. He faced charges including two counts of conspiring to engage in criminal activity and forcefully demanding property.
Former CS Rashid Echesa Rushed to Hospital in Critical Condition