Sifuna urges Senate to probe 2 KNH murders
By Valerian Khakayi, July 24, 2025Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has called for immediate Senate investigations into two gruesome patient murders that occurred within Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), one in February 2025 and the other in July 2025.
Speaking during a Senate session on Thursday, July 23, 2025, Sifuna described the murders as deeply troubling, pointing out that both incidents occurred in the same hospital ward at KNH.
He urged the Senate Health Committee to launch an urgent probe into these cases, audit hospital security protocols, and scrutinise the troubling practice of detaining former patients who have been medically cleared.
“The fact that two patients were murdered in the same ward, months apart, raises disturbing questions about the safety of our hospitals. We may be dealing with a serial killer who has gone unnoticed within Kenya’s largest referral facility,” Sifuna stated.
KNH security
Apart from Sifuna, Senator Enoch Wambua of Kitui County also sounded the alarm over rising security concerns at KNH and within the parliamentary precincts, urging the government to take immediate action to safeguard lives and restore public confidence.
“It is a very sad situation when the biggest teaching and referral hospital in Kenya, where patients are supposed to feel safe, becomes a place of fear,” he said. “People no longer know who might be attacked next. Something urgent needs to be done to salvage the image of that institution.”
Murder at KNH
His comments come in the wake of a series of troubling security lapses at KNH, including a second reported killing detailed by a local publication on July 18. A person of interest in the case, Kennedy Kalombotole, was arraigned at the Kibera Law Courts and detained pending further investigations.
The incidents have sparked public outrage and renewed scrutiny of the hospital’s internal security protocols.
In the February 2025 incident, a 39-year-old patient was discovered in his ward with a slit throat. Post-mortem results confirmed the wound was consistent with a knife attack. The assailant remains unidentified.
In the second incident, which happened on July 17, 2025, a 52-year-old male patient was found dead with severe neck injuries in Ward 7B.
One person of interest, identified as Kennedy Kalombotole, has been arrested and is in custody. Kalombotole has a long history of staying at KNH, dating back to ICU admission in 2022, and was still within the hospital in mid‑2025 due to homelessness and ongoing investigations.