Kibaki son admitted to city hospital

By STANDARD TEAM
President Kibaki's son David Kagai was yesterday airlifted to Nairobi for specialised treatment after fracturing his leg at a beach in Mombasa.
Sources said Kagai was playing at the beach when he broke his leg yesterday morning. He was first taken to a Mombasa Hospital where he was attended to before being airlifted to Nairobi Hospital.
Government security agencies and paramedics were mobilised as rescue and treatment teams responded to the tragedy. Top security officers were summoned into action to ensure his protection.
City journalists had been informed there was a VIP who was to be airlifted to Wilson Airport before. They rushed there but officials at the airport told them they had no information on an emergency case arriving there.
Tight security
Journalists later learned the chopper carrying the President’s son had landed at the hospital but officials at the facility denied it was Kagai.
A spokeswoman at the hospital who identified herself as Brenda told The Standard the person who was airlifted there was a tourist who had been involved in an accident.
"The person who has been brought in is a tourist involved in an accident somewhere in the country," she said without explanation. But sources at the Mombasa Hospital had confirmed to The Standard a member of the First Family had been admitted there in the morning and plans were being made to transfer him to Nairobi.
Head of the Presidential Press Services Isaiah Kabira promised to call media houses over the issue but by the time of going to press he had not done so.
At the Nairobi Hospital security was equally heightened.