Drama ensued on Friday evening after Kakamega County Senator Boni Khalwale confronted a county official, resulting in a heated exchange over stalled development projects in the county.
In a video seen by Nairobi Leo, the senator issued stern warnings to county officials, accusing them of corruption and threatening legal action over the collapse of critical health services in the county.
"I'm telling you in my lifetime, and get this straight, we will get you people arrested so that you pay for the lives of the people who have died since this hospital collapsed," Khalwale declared in the confrontational encounter. "I am very serious, I am very serious, by the way, and I'm very objective, listen, listen, I'm very serious, these are the fellows who are eating the money."
The tense confrontation took place on Friday during a site visit by the Senate Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations, during which senators evaluated incomplete development projects across the county.
As tensions mounted during the heated discussion, Senator Khalwale was captured on camera pushing the county official before several attendees at the meeting rushed to intervene and separate the two men.
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Committee chairman Mohamed Abass and committee member Senator Richard Onyonka stepped in and calmed the situation.
The Senate has focused on examining stalled development initiatives in Kakamega County, with particular emphasis on the long-overdue Kakamega County Teaching and Referral Hospital project.
According to a statement released by the Senate on its official X platform on Friday, October 3, 2025, the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations, under the leadership of Wajir Senator Mohamed Abass, is conducting on-site assessments of delayed development projects throughout the county.
The committee has identified the Kakamega County Teaching and Referral Hospital as a primary area of concern, noting that the facility has remained unfinished for nearly ten years, raising serious questions about project implementation and accountability in the county's development agenda.
