NAIROBI, Kenya — A fresh legal hurdle has been thrown in the path of the Kenya Hospital Association’s planned Annual General Meeting, with a public notice published in the Daily Nation today questioning whether the meeting can lawfully proceed.
The meeting, convened by the Kenya Hospital Association (KHA), trading as The Nairobi Hospital, is purportedly scheduled for Tuesday, 25 August 2026. But according to a legal notice and accompanying letter, the AGM is being convened in the face of subsisting High Court orders.
The notice points to orders issued by the High Court on 5 November 2025, which were confirmed on 18 November 2025 and extracted on 20 November 2025. At paragraphs 10 and 11 of the extracted proceedings, the Court is said to have directed that the orders of 5 November 2025 remain in force until the Notice of Motion Application dated 4 November 2025 and the Preliminary Objection are heard and determined.
The ruling on the Preliminary Objection is slated for 5 November 2026. Until then, the legal argument goes, the orders remain binding unless varied or set aside by the Court.
Irregularities Cited
The objectors have flagged what they describe as serious governance lapses ahead of the meeting. These include inadequate notice to members, an unaudited membership register, and fundamental irregularities touching on both the agenda and the proposed electoral process.
On that basis, members have been advised to keep away from the Tuesday meeting, while the Board and Company Secretary have been urged to withdraw the AGM notice immediately.
The latest development adds to a long-running governance dispute at The Nairobi Hospital, one of Kenya’s leading private hospitals, where control of the membership register and the conduct of elections have repeatedly been contested in and out of court.
If the AGM proceeds despite the cited orders, any decisions taken — including elections — could face legal challenge.
For now, all eyes are on the KHA Board and the High Court. Whether Tuesday’s meeting will go on as planned, be postponed, or be stopped by the court remains unclear.