This marks the first publicly confirmed use of the bio-isolation facility at Laikipia Air Base since its construction.
The development matters because paul Muite raises concerns over U.S. Ebola personnel quarantine in Kenya.
The key developments are:
- Senior Counsel Paul Muite has called on the Kenyan government to issue an official statement following reports that American aid workers who had been responding to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are quarantining at the controversial bio-isolation facility at Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki.
- In a statement shared on X on Saturday, July 18, 2026, Muite questioned whether the government was complying with existing court orders and sought clarification on Kenya's public health safeguards.
- The High Court temporarily suspended construction and the admission of foreign patients pending determination of the constitutional petition.
- According to Reuters, the seven Americans work for the Christian humanitarian organisation Samaritan's Purse and had been deployed as part of an Ebola response mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- The Nanyuki quarantine facility has been at the centre of legal and political controversy since the United States announced plans to establish a 50-bed bio-isolation unit for American citizens exposed to Ebola while serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
