Busia senator Okiya Omtatah has moved to court together with Eliud Matindi & Magare Gikenyi in a bid to stop the implementation of Social Health Insurance Fund(SHIF).
The petitioners are also seeking to quash the contract between Safaricom and government over concerns of lack of legislation to operationalise the fund.
“On Monday, 30th September, 2024, the petitioners moved the High Court, under a Certificate of Urgency, seeking interim orders suspending the implementation of the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) on the grounds that the subsidiary legislation required to operationalise the Social Insurance Health Act, were not in place.
“The petitioners have requested the Court quash the subsidiary legislation which are illegally and unconstitutionally being used to implement the SHIF,” he said in a statement on X.
The petitioners attached highly classified documents in their petition that expose what they term a fraud scheme between corrupt government operatives and highly connected wheeler dealers in the Safaricom Consortium.
“The secretive documents expose the contract between the Government of Kenya and the Safaricom Consortium to be a vicious fraud scheme deliberately designed to steal colossal amounts of money from the SHIF and/or from the Consolidated Fund, in the event contributions to the fund fail to raise the contract billions.
“Though the Safaricom Consortium masquerades as investors, the truth of the matter is that they will not invest even a single cent into the Kenyan economy. They are basic computer software vendors, who will retain all rights to their product, including the right to sell it to third parties, as they charge Kenyans for using it,” Omtatah said.
Filed a court petition together with Eliud Matindi & Magare Gikenyi to stop the launch of the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), we also seek to quash the contract between the government and the Safaricom Consortium, citing concerns over the lack of legislation to… pic.twitter.com/Y2rEfMOeE3
— Okiya Omtatah Okoiti (@OkiyaOmtatah) October 1, 2024
SHIF will be rollout as from October 1, 2024 to replace NHIF.