Macharia Njeru: Kibaki allowed boards to work. The reality is that the government designs projects based on personal interests, creates a need even when there is none, and comes up with complex financial arrangements to confuse the public #CitizenDayBreak
FINSPRINT, THE SECRET BENEFICIARY IN SHA PAYMENTS IS AKIN TO SAFARICOM’S MOBITELEA
A Safaricom-led consortium (with Konvergenz Network Solutions and UAE’s Apeiro Limited) runs the Sh104.8B SHA digital system under a 10-year contract — but govt neither owns nor controls the system; all intellectual property belongs to the consortium.
A previously undisclosed private firm, Finsprint, retains 2% of every hospital claim’s value for “logistics costs” — a deduction hospitals say they never agreed to and were never consulted on.
Hospitals (e.g. Ms Janet Onyango’s facility) have had payments stall for months due to system errors, and were redirected to Finsprint — a company not mentioned anywhere in SHA’s public communications.
Layered structure obscures accountability: DHA (government agency) → Safaricom consortium → Apeiro (claims verification) → Konvergenz → Finsprint (payment gateway/banking details) — hospitals report having no visibility into who controls their money or why payments fail.
Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu’s report flags that the SHA contract was procured without competitive bidding — a breach of constitutional and statutory procurement requirements.
The theft: for every Sh100 a hospital claims, Sh2 goes directly to owners of the private entity, another Sh5 to the same entity, plus a 1.5% tracking-services charge — projected to yield the consortium Sh111B over the contract’s life.
Finsprint’s ownership traces to two directors (Issa Sheikh Mohamed and Abdulhakim Ibrahim Sheikh) holding a minority stake, while majority control (575 shares) sits with Impactsoft Technologies Group Ltd — a company with no verifiable registered address
@_shakenya’s official response sidesteps specifics on #Finsprint, insists it pays hospitals “directly,” and cites Sections 35–36 of the SHIF Act — but doesn’t explain the 2% deduction or why affected hospitals weren’t informed.
@RuphaKenya ex secretary-general Dr. Brian Lishenga says hospitals were never consulted on the deduction and question its legality.
Health CS Aden Duale did not respond to media queries — raising further questions about the growing scandal around SHA payments
@RhinoArk@IanECox@WilliamsRuto@Rhino_Charge Judging by the body language, the crowd has already moved on to the important question: how many White Caps are left in the cooler?
Kenyan President Ruto's signature policy is an affordable housing program. The problem: It's leaving thousands of people homeless. https://t.co/ZS2jVs7e9b
Today’s matatu strike has exposed just how unstable Ruto’s regime has become.
The country is angry from every corner, and instead of listening, the government only knows how to threaten, dismiss and deploy force.
After Raila Odinga’s death, Ruto has lost the one political buffer that helped him. What remains now is the gun, that is why this evening Kenyans are being lectured by security chiefs.
Never before has a leader been this badly exposed.... surrounded by anger, rejected by the people, and surviving on fear instead of legitimacy.
I am not worried about Kenya in 2022. I am extremely worried for Kenya Post 2022 because a Ruto presidency post 2022 looks like it's inevitable and Ruto isn't someone you'd want to give a country to lead.
The Geneva-based Institute of Human Rights (IHR) has criticised President William Ruto’s efforts to back Supreme Court Justice Njoki Ndung’u for a position on the International Criminal Court (ICC) bench.
David Koros, the IHR president, stated that President Ruto lacks the moral standing to campaign and lead diplomatic efforts to secure Justice Ndung’u’s election to the ICC, given his alleged role in hindering justice for victims of the 2007/2008 post-election violence.
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