By P, KNA
Gem Member of Parliament (MP), Elisha Ochieng Odhiambo, has challenged the government and research agencies to investigate the cause of the upsurge of the number of Kenyans succumbing to cardiac arrest in the recent years.
According to Odhiambo, the number of incidents where people collapse and die sudden deaths was worrying, especially after the Covid vaccines were administered a few years ago.
Speaking at St. Kizito, Mutumbu and St. Teresa, Yala Catholic Churches, where he presided over funds drives in aid of the parishes, Odhiambo said there is suspicion that the vaccines administered during the Covid era, could be the cause of the upsurge in sudden deaths across the country.
“I am asking the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and the medical fraternity to delve into the matter and help the citizens, so that we do not continue losing many people” said the Legislator who was flanked by Yala Town member of the County Assembly, William Kinyanyi and father Clement Oluoch among others.
The MP at the same time sent a message of condolence to the family and friends of the late Festus Amimo, who collapsed and passed on in the wee hours today. Until his death, Amimo was the head of Mayienga FM, a subsidiary of the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation.
Meanwhile, Odhiambo has accused a section of politicians from Nyanza of using propaganda and falsehoods to undermine the Interior Principal Secretary, Dr. Raymond Omollo.
The Gem MP lamented that it was shameful that the selfish politicians were working for the downfall of one of their own, instead of protecting him.
“It is wrong to insinuate that the PS was behind the chaos that rocked the recent Kasipul by elections” he said adding “this nonsense must end”.