The drama surrounding Naivas supermarket is threatening to get messier after the Nairobi City County Assembly Health Committee issued a scathing response to the giant retailer over bribery allegations levelled against the retailer.
In a strongly worded statement on the evening of Wednesday, May 14, the committee reprimanded Naivas over the supermarket's earlier statement, where they denied wrongdoing after a recent inspection of its Moi Avenue branch.
Naivas, which came under sharp criticism earlier in the day, denied stocking any expired products, amid allegations from the committee that many of the food handlers at the supermarket had not been subjected to mandatory medical checks as required by public health regulations.
But the City County Assembly Health Committee doubled down on their initial claims, insisting that the inspection of the Moi Avenue branch was within their mandate as per provisions in Article 185 of the Constitution of Kenya (2010) and Section 9 of the County Governments Act (2012).
