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The Senate health committee is set to investigate the Nakuru War Memorial Hospital saga after Nakuru Senator Tabitha Karanja filed a petition seeking the intervention of the house to bring to an end the ownership wrangles pitting the private investors and the county government of Nakuru.

According to Karanja, the committee will summon Nakuru governor Susan Kihika as well as the management of the hospital in a bid to get to the bottom of the wrangles that have seen the facility closed down for several months now.

“All parties involved in this saga including the governor have been summoned by the Senate so that the truth can be known,” she said on Sunday.

This comes even as Senator Karanja’s onslaught on Kihika continues, accusing the county boss of ignoring six court orders that directed the devolved government to hand over back the facility directors, pending the hearing and determination of a case in which the county sued the investors for allegedly acquiring a lease extension of the 25-acre piece of land on which the hospital on with forged documents.

However, the senator has over time maintained that the lease was acquired through legal channels, noting that the Kihika led administration was acting maliciously and this was crippling the health system in the county.

Karanja has also accused the governor of spreading misleading information to the public surrounding the War Memorial Hospital saga to fit her narrative, a move the senator said is not sustainable.

“I was shocked when the governor met religious leaders and openly and without shame lied about the hospital which continues to remain in the hands of goons,” she said.

The senator vowed to continue fighting for the restoration of the hospital that has been serving Nakuru residents for a long time despite what she has severally cited as undermining of her office by the governor and will not be cowed from performing her oversight role.

She sounded a warning that the public’s frustrations is rising in the manner in which the county government has handled the matter, noting that it might get out of hand.