Ngare Gituku, former President Mwai Kibaki's spokesperson, has assured Kenyans that the retired Head of State is in good health, allaying fears that he had been hospitalised.
Word was going around on social media that Kibaki had been taken to a Nairobi Hospital on Thursday but Mr Gituku rubbished the claims as rumours saying all was well.
"Idle rumours again? He's well and nowhere near a sanatorium," he said.
A sanatorium is a medical facility for long-term illness, most typically associated with the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in the late-nineteenth and twentieth century before the discovery of antibiotics.
Kibaki served as Kenya’s President for two five-year terms, from 2002 to 2013, before he was succeeded by the incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta.
The last time he was admitted to hospital was in 2016 when he fell ill at his Muthaiga home and was flown to South Africa for specialised treatment.
He lost his wife, former first lady Lucy Kibaki in April of the same year.
