Nairobi, March 5- Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah has urged the Ministry of Health to suspend the Social Health Authority (SHA) following a damning report by Auditor General Nancy Gathungu. The report exposed SHA as a Ksh104 billion corruption scheme that the government neither owns nor controls, endangering billions contributed by Kenyans for healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Omtatah has issued three key demands: the immediate suspension of SHA pending a full investigation, a complete overhaul of its framework, and accountability for those responsible for misappropriated funds. He warned that SHA\u2019s failures go beyond administrative issues, posing a serious threat to Universal Health Coverage in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is not just mismanagement; it\u2019s a systemic failure that betrays millions relying on a fair and accountable healthcare system,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Auditor General\u2019s report revealed that 2.5% of members’ contributions were being funneled into an escrow account with no oversight. It also highlighted procurement irregularities, missing payment agreements, and unfavorable contract terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The revelations have intensified public outcry, with calls for SHA\u2019s cancellation and stricter oversight of its financial management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nairobi, March 5- Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah has urged the Ministry of Health to suspend the Social Health Authority (SHA) following a damning report by Auditor General Nancy Gathungu. The report exposed SHA as a Ksh104 billion corruption scheme that the government neither owns nor controls, endangering billions contributed by Kenyans for healthcare. Omtatah has issued three key demands: the immediate suspension of SHA pending a full investigation, a complete overhaul of its framework, and accountability for those responsible for misappropriated funds. He warned that SHA\u2019s failures go beyond administrative issues, posing a serious threat to Universal Health Coverage in Kenya. \u201cThis is not just mismanagement; it\u2019s a systemic failure that betrays millions relying on a fair and accountable healthcare system,\u201d he stated. The Auditor General\u2019s report revealed that 2.5% of members’ contributions were being funneled into an escrow account with no oversight. It also highlighted procurement irregularities, missing payment agreements, and unfavorable contract terms. The revelations have intensified public outcry, with calls for SHA\u2019s cancellation and stricter oversight of its financial management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}