Aden Duale Summoned By DCI for Distributing Expired Food to Orphanage

Garissa Member Of Parliament Aden Duale is expected to appear at the DCI headquarters for allegedly donating expired food to a children’s orphanage.

Garissa residents say that their legislator has been distributing expired food which has posed a threat to the health of the consumers.

A letter written to Duale by the Assistant Inspector-General of Police Benedict Oyaro stated that investigations have been launched following several complaints from the Garissa residents.

“I do hereby require Aden Duale to personally appear before Mr. Benedict Oyaro an assistant inspector general of police investigating the alleged offense on 19 February at 10.00 am at DCI headquarters Nairobi.”

The National Assembly majority leader who was supposed to appear before the DCI on Wednesday denied the allegations stating hew was not summoned and the whole story was just propaganda.

“The whole thing is fake, including the letter. You can go to Garissa and see it for yourself. I talked to the DCI himself and he said there is nothing,” Duale told a local daily.

Duale is said to have distributed expired foodstuffs which include maize, rice, and flour to Najah Children’s’ Home on Monday, February 17, 2020.

After several checks, the school management concluded that the foods distributed by Duale were not suitable for human consumption since they had expired.

“He visited the orphanage on Monday. When we opened the food sacks we saw some black substance that raised concern amongst us. It is then that we learned that the food had already spoiled meaning it was expired,” said Najah’s children’s Home manager Mohammed Noor.

Though Duale denied the allegations, some evidence still proves that he took part in distributing food to the community after he was approached by members of the Bohra community.

The Bohra community members later sent a message to Duale telling him that the food they distributed was spoilt.

“We have learned with regret that some dead stock was loaded. We have just come to know the storekeeper was not there during the loading of the foodstuffs and nobody checked,” read the message.

Sources have revealed that police officers, public health, and Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) and Kenya Revenue Authority officials visited Duale’s offices in Garissa town to investigate the matter.