"Immediately after this [Press Conference] I am going straight to Serena for lunch where I'll pay 2,500/= for the lunch. People are finding it hard to pay Kshs. 66/= a day [Trust him to learn from YU's 5 cents per second ad] while I pay 2,500/= for lunch?". That was Ayan'g Nyong'o trying to explain why there will be no negotiations on the new NHIF charges.

I don't even know where to begin.

1) I wonder how many of his constituents and the over taxed Kenyans can afford a 2,500/= lunch. Heck. How many can afford lunch?

2) It's not simply about 2k. If you are planning to deduct up to 2k from my salary, I want to know exactly what I'll get in return. There are people who are willingly paying much more for their health insurance for a very simple reason - cost benefit analysis. Why would I want to pay even a thousand bob only to end up lying on the floor on the corridors of Kenyatta Hospital waiting for treatment - for up to 24 hrs - while doctors just pass by as if I don't even exist?

What worries me most is the precedence this will set. How can a parastatal initiate or even revise statutory deductions without involving parliament. Which parastatal will be next? For those younger than Njung'e - that is most of us - do you know there were statutory deductions for the City Council many years back? If NHIF succeeds, very soon we might be paying City council tax, County tax, Pedestrian tax, Commuter tax etc. etc.

yeye ni brari uji baridi

Building the Nation
Henry Barlow (Uganda)

Today I did my share
In building the nation.
I drove a Permanent Secretary
To an important, urgent function
In fact, to a luncheon at the Vic.
The menu reflected its importance
Cold bell beer with small talk,
Then fried chicken with niceties
Wine to fill the hollowness of the laughs
Ice-cream to cover the stereotype jokes
Coffee to keep the PS awake on the return journey.
I drove the Permanent Secretary back.
He yawned many times in back of the car
Then to keep awake, he suddenly asked,
Did you have any lunch friend?
I replied looking straight ahead
And secretly smiling at his belated concern
That I had not, but was slimming!
Upon which he said with a seriousness
That amused more than annoyed me,
Mwananchi, I too had none!
I attended to matters of state.
Highly delicate diplomatic duties you know,
And friend, it goes against my grain,
Causes me stomach ulcers and wind.
Ah, he continued, yawning again,
The pains we suffer in building the nation!

Thought i was the only one who got pissed by his sentiments. kwanza when he said he pays 2000 an amount he made equivalent to what he takes 4 lunch.
Assuming he earns 1 million per month this is 0.2% of his salary and yet he wants that dude who earns 20000 per month to pay 1000 which is 5%. NKT
ABK

BK. So does this mean we drop our current (and more convenient) covers? with AAR, APA, Resolution etc? I mean, if you're shelling out 30k a year for that cover, and then now start shelling out 18,000 to 24,000 a year for NHIF, thats 48,000 - 54,000 a year!

I am sorry to put my point in that manner. But please look at the bigger picture. We want universal healthcare for all. So please contribute more so that the person poorer than you can access the public hospital

...talk of the truth of stereotypes... What he wanted to tell us is that he takes his meals from the Serena...but do I say?

The star Oct 3rd, 2009

BY CAROLE MAINA
RETIRED President Moi has been mentioned in a report tabled in court yesterday to show how the National Health Insurance Fund lost some of the Sh1.8 billion deposited in the Euro Bank which collapsed in 2003.

Also mentioned are former Cabinet ministers and some serving MPs in the case in which former NHIF managing director Ibrahim Hussein has denied abuse of office charges. According to the report, in 2001,the then minister for Medical Services Amukowa Anagwe gave approval for the NHIF to invest some of its money with the bank. He, however, limited his authority to only Sh200 million.

Later Hussein was summoned to State House through his personal assistant where he' met the Euro bank chairman Solomon Muthamia and South Imenti MP Gitobu Imanyara who prevailed upon him to support the bank by increasing the deposits. The fund subsequently invested Sh304,499,751.70 with the bank after Moi's intervention.

"The chief executive was summoned to State House where he met the head of state, Imanyara and Muthamia and was questioned on the redemption of the investments the Fund had made to Euro bank," the report says.

Imanyara complained that the bank could go under but Moi insisted on the need to support indigenous banks and advised Euro bank to protect the money. "The chief executive was advised to support the bank"" the reports further reads. At another meeting, Muthamia is said to have given the then President a briefcase containing money.

Subsequently the Fund deposited a further 175 million between January 2002 up to June 2002 and rolled over what was already bringing the total deposited to 479,499 754.70.

While testifying yesterday, former NHIF chief financial controller Stephen Wambugu produced detailed documents showing the huge transactions carried out between the collapsed bank and the NHIF. Wambugu said between 2000 and 2001, the Fund recalled all the investments. He said he met the directors of the bank who assured him that they would pump in new capital.

This was after he told them it was imperative that they refunded the investment.

Last Edited: Sat 03rd October 2009 at 09:09:13 PM

Is that @anyang' nyongo the real one?

The guy just needs to cut on arrogance and just face the very real issues Kenyan's have with his scheme. The best approach would have been to explain clearly what benefits the new scheme has, what they are doing to cut corruption and mismanagement at NHIF, Etc and then propose the new deductions. Instead? The arrogant talk!!! Nktest

@Nyong'o nyong'o ...You are the same one who claimed that Safcom at 5 shillings is cheaper than KQ IPO at 11.25. You are a professor of what?

We know you are trying to raise money for 2012 campaigns. You shoudl be asamed of your beard. Mafi ya kuku!