Senator Okiya Omtatah of Busia County has filed a lawsuit to halt the Social Health Insurance Fund’s (SHIF) formal launch.
The voluminous petition includes all the information from tendering, approval, and fake minutes to the deployment of SHIF and directors, along with proxies from all companies involved in Kenya, UAE, and India.
Together with Eliud Matindi and Magare Gikenyi, the three filed a case on September 30, 2024, under a Certificate of Urgency requesting interim orders that would stop the SHIF’s deployment due to constitutional violations.
They contend that there was a lack of the subsidiary laws necessary to make the Social Insurance Health Act operative.
The petitioners request that the court invalidate the subsidiary laws, arguing that they are being used unconstitutionally and unlawfully to carry out the SHIF.
They asked the court to grant a conservatory order postponing the Social Health Insurance Fund’s planned rollout on October 1, 2024, “pending the interparty hearing and determination of this application and the petition herein.”
Additionally, the petitioners ask the court to nullify the agreement between the government and the Safaricom Consortium, which consists of Apeiro Limited, Konvergenz Network Solutions Limited, and Safaricom Plc.
The authorities hired the Safaricom Consortium to deliver the Integrated Healthcare Information Technology System for Universal Health Care (UHC) through the Ministry of Health, State Department of Medical Services.
SHIF must fall. SHIF will fall.
— Okiya Omtatah Okoiti (@RealOmtatah) October 3, 2024
We are at war against everything associated with Adani,
Anyone who took their kickback money to return it.
The war is on!#RejectSHIF #OccupyParliament pic.twitter.com/17zrpgBmIM
