Health CS nominee Barasa Mlongo reveals her net worth and why she didn’t renew her practising license

Health CS nominee Debra Barasa Mlongo has explained why she did not renew her practising license for the last four years
Health CS nominee Debra Barasa Mlongo has explained why she did not renew her practising license for the last four years.
Speaking during her vetting by the National Assembly Committee on Appointments, Barasa said she transitioned to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020, a move she says did not require her to activate the practising license.
She said the WHO being under the UN is an international independent organisation with no affiliation to any member state and she therefore did not need a practising license.
“I am a qualified doctor. My registration A6275. I have been in clinical practice from 2007 to 2020 compliant to license renewal. In 2020 I joined WHO which is part of the UN. It is an International Independent entity with no affiliation to any member state,” Barasa said.
“I was an international civil servant offering services to 22 countries in East and Southern Africa and the 47 member states also supported in the Afro region so my work and my capacity was at an international level as a policy adviser giving strategic direction and technical advice to various countries in the afro-region.”
She went on to say that she only renewed her license because President William Ruto’s appointment meant she was coming back to work in the country.
She added that it was also out of respect and the fact that she would work around the medical environment.
“Once the President nominated me as Cabinet Secretary, because of the courtesy and respect and coming back into the Kenyan medical environment as well as Cabinet Secretary, I renewed my clinical practice.”
Questions were raised over the status of her practising license soon after she was nominated to the Cabinet.
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In addition, Health Cabinet Secretary Deborah Barasa Mlongo placed her net worth at Ksh455 million.
Mlongo told the MPs that the wealth is a combination of what she has acquired together with her husband.
“My net worth is a combination of mine with my husband and it is Ksh455,845,320,) Mlongo stated while responding to Speaker Moses Masika Wetang’ula question.
However, she did not explain how the wealth was accumulated and its breakdown.
MPs sitting in the Committee of Appointments were divided by whether to accept the combined wealth report or divide it to find Mlongo’s exact net worth.
” Because this is a house of records, I propose we divide it into two,” Saboti Member of Parliament Caleb Amisi stated.
“There is no need to do that,” Mishi Mboko responded in a quick rebuttal.
Wetang’ula in his directive noted that there is no need to divide the net worth unless ordered by the court.
“Don’t break families, if there is a dispute the courts will decide,” Wetang’ula directed.
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