Towards the end of 2018 Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Junior experienced a life threatening ordeal where he almost lost his life during a lunch meal in Kapsabet, Nandi County.
The Senator was taken ill after collapsing during the meal, in what most media houses reported as chocking from a piece of chicken meat.
In a interview with one of the Radio stations the young senator cleared the airsaying that he never chocked as it was reported.
It was a piece of chicken flesh, but confirmed that it blocked the space between the food pipe and stomach and not the throat.
He further added saying, “I was rushed to the Moi Hospital for treatment after collapsing. I was told by the doctors that I was not chocked. Instead, the meat blocked the way to my stomach and not throat.”
The youthful lawmaker was in the company of his colleagues from across the nation, after which he was rushed to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County.
He said that the meat was removed through intravenous technique.
In addition he said he was comfortable in a public hospital, unlike most of his colleagues who would have gone for a private facility.
“I was not put through surgery. Instead, the piece was gotten out using intravenous. I was very comfortable at the hospital and they did a very good job,” said the vocal Senator.