I’m a landlord. It’s a tough business. I had a tenant, Mr. Alvarez. Never late on rent for 5 years. Then, the checks stopped. I went to his apartment. He didn’t open the door. I used my key. The apartment was empty. No furniture. Just a mattress on the floor and Mr. Alvarez sitting on it. “I’m sorry,” he said, looking down. “My wife got sick. The medication… I sold everything. I’ll leave today.” I looked at the empty room. I went to my truck. I grabbed my tools. “I’m not kicking you out,” I said. “But I am raising the rent.” He looked terrified. “I’m raising it to $0 for the next six months.” He started to cry. “And,” I added, “I’ve got an extra sofa in storage. And a table. Let’s get this place looking like a home again.” That was three years ago. His wife recovered. He’s back on his feet. He insists on paying me double rent now to "pay back the debt." I put the extra money into a fund for other tenants who struggle. A roof over someone’s head is a business. Keeping a roof over their head when they’re drowning? That’s a duty.
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Today I am angry, broken, and ashamed as a Kenyan.
Let’s stop pretending. Appointing a camel farmer to run the Ministry of Health was not leadership it was rewarding loyalty at the altar of Kenyan lives. And now blood is on the floor.
This is not politics. This is cruelty.
Alice Mumbua is 71 years old.
She fell sick in August 2025 and was admitted to Mega Life Hospital Ruai. ICU. Fighting for her life.
September passed. October passed.
The bill climbed to KSh 1.7 million.
Her husband, John, did what men do when they love he sold his land in Kasarani, Njiru Ward. His shamba. His future. He paid KSh 1.1 million and begged the hospital to release his wife so they could agree on how to clear the balance.
The hospital refused.
In November, desperate and exhausted, he registered his wife under SHA, believing government healthcare meant something. The hospital laughed it off. “We don’t take SHA.” Then shifted goalposts: “SHA only covers some things. Pay first.”
Then tragedy struck.
December 7th, the man carrying this burden alone the breadwinner, the fighter, the husband of 50 years collapsed and died.
Alice lost her husband while lying in a hospital bed she was being held hostage in.
And it got worse.
The hospital DENIED HER PERMISSION TO BURY HER HUSBAND.
They told her plainly: No money, no freedom.
Her husband’s funeral was delayed three weeks.
He was buried without his wife of 50 years present.
She spent Christmas detained like a criminal not because she committed a crime, but because she was poor.
This is not healthcare.
This is kidnapping with receipts.
As of January 8, the bill has ballooned to KSh 2.8 million because the hospital happily charged her for every day they imprisoned her after killing her spirit.
And where is the @MOH_Kenya ?
@HonAdenDuale, where are you?
Busy with politics? Busy defending incompetence? Busy lecturing Kenyans while hospitals turn patients into prisoners?
Universal Health Care is not a slogan.
It is not a press conference.
It is not propaganda.
When private hospitals openly sabotage SHA, detain patients, block burials, and extort grieving families that is a failure of the Ministry.
This government has allowed profit-driven facilities to torture citizens, and the silence from MOH is loud.
Alice Mumbua should be home mourning her husband.
Instead, she is detained, traumatized, and punished for surviving.
Kenyans of good will, this can be your mother tomorrow.
If this does not outrage you, then we have truly lost our humanity.
Free Alice Mumbua.
Tame rogue hospitals.
Hold the Ministry of Health accountable.
Enough is enough.
H.E Rigathi Gachagua is unapologetically a Kikuyu supremist and a tribalist class A. But he makes a valid point when he calls out leaders from Northern Kenya and tells the truth about them. Hon Rigathi Gachagua is 💯 right when he says (a) Northern Kenya leaders are thieves who steal from their people and invest public funds in Nairobi, (b) Northern Kenyan leaders can't account for about Kshs 1 trillion given to the region since devolution started in 2013. (c) Northern Kenya leaders have not built world class institutions ie schools, hospitals etc and have EATEN CDF money. (d) Northern Kenyans leaders including MCAs are all domiciled in Nairobi and have homes, wives and children only in Nairobi and none in Northern Kenya. Look at Garissa and Marsabit. Where did Kshs 300 billion in devolution money go to? Leaders steal money left, right and centre and nothing happens. Gachagua is playing politics, but when he talks about Northern Kenyan leaders and how they have let down their people he is being truthful and i'm with him 💯.
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@MigunaMiguna You put your life on the line to help Raila and Kenyans get justice after uhuru had rigged the 2017 election. Raila later left you in the struggle and joined the regime. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.