MP Kibagendi, Duale engage in heated exchange over SHA fraud claims
By Joel Masibo, October 14, 2025Drama ensued in the National Assembly’s Health Committee session on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, following a heated exchange between Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale and Kitutu Chache South MP Antony Kibagendi over Social Health Authority (SHA) fraud.
The session quickly turned into chaos and confrontation as MP Kibagendi disrupted the proceedings, accusing the Cabinet Secretary of attempting to intimidate the committee.
“You cannot intimidate this committee. We are not your children for you to dictate how we run our business,” Kibagendi said.
The verbal exchange escalated as both Duale and Kibagendi accused each other of fraud. Committee Chair James Nyikal was forced to intervene several times to restore order, with CS Aden Duale threatening to push for the removal of MP Anthony Kibagendi from the Parliamentary Health Committee over misconduct.
The situation got worse as the MP ignored the call of order from the committee chair before he was escorted out of the room by the sergeants-at-arms. As the legislator was exiting, CS Aden Duale kept insisting that he would close more health facilities owned by the MP, having shut down two of them earlier over reported SHA irregularities, while Kibagendi denied owning any hospital.
“You are conflicted. You should not even be sitting in this committee. We have closed some of your hospitals and will close even more,” Duale fired back at Kibagendi.
In defence of MP Kibagendi, Nandi Woman Representative Cynthia Muge questioned the chair’s decision to oust Kibagendi while Duale was allowed to proceed after both were visibly out of order. “The shouting has been between the two. Why are you kicking out Kibagendi and leaving the CS seated here?” she asked.
Later, after the drama, Anthony Kibagendi posted on his social media pages, saying, “Each time I ask CS DUALE hard questions about SHA, he quickly switches to saying he has closed my hospitals (I don’t know which ones) and that is why I am hard on him. Why can’t Duale openly say which hospitals I own, when they were registered and who are even my proxies? And then go ahead to close them completely. Now he can answer our questions about the inadequacies and conflicts of interest he has in SHA,” he said.
The session continued with a handful of committee members, as most walked out.