Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta is under fire for launching projects past curfew hours.

President Kenyatta launched five hospitals on Tuesday night and explained that it was necessary to do it at night so as to ensure efficiency in service provision.

He said the hospitals were meant to operate 24 hours and he needed to monitor that.

The president also explained that a daytime launch would have violated the social distancing guidelines.

“As you have seen for yourselves, it would have been impossible to go and do what we did today, during the day because of the number of people who would have been out there,” he told journalists.