What’s All This Secrecy About Raphael Tuju’s Health?

Hon Raphael Tuju, Kenyan Foreign Minister

I stand to be corrected, but I thought that when a country’s foreign minister is admitted to any hospital, let alone a foreign one, this is supossed to be very big news. It does not matter if they are suffering from the common cold or something a lot more serious. More so at this time when there seems to be some strange jinx for accidents, bad luck and death that has hit the current government since it came into power.

But editors in the print media in Kenya seem to disagree with my view. They have given a total news black out to Raphael Tuju’s health-related problems in Australia. The Nation carried only a few lines that left readers in more suspense and asking more questions. So what’s going on?

It appears that Foreign Minister Raphael Tuju was admitted in a Sidney Hospital suffering from a "swollen leg" after a long flight from Nairobi to Sidney. These kind of inflight symptoms are not to be taken lightly as some fatalities have been reported in the past.

Luckily it seems the minister is out of any danger because he was discharged yesterday (after being admitted on Monday).

This blogger is busy trying to get some more information from the media in Australia.