AIC Machakos Area Bishop Philip Muia welcomes rebel clergymen at AIC Mbaikini |
The churches based in Mwala Subcounty broke away from AIC Kenya more than 10 years ago
AIC Machakos Area Bishop Philip Muia welcomes rebel clergymen at AIC Mbaikini |
Kitui County, NHIF sign
Universal Health Care pact
The MOU will see over 100, 00O homesteads benefit under the comprehensive super cover.
By Terry Nzau
Kitui County government Governor Kaluki Ngilu says her government will use a co-pay program that will see the county pay 50% of the annual subscription of Ksh 6000 to NHIF while the rest will be paid by the covered household. " Sixty Percent of Kitui residents are classified as poor and lack means. With this we have a pocket expenditure to ensure affordable health for all", said Ngilu.
Governor Ngilu during the signing of the MOU with NHIF CEO Mr Peter Kamunyo |
Kitui County has 262,000 households with currently about 79, 320 household being insurured with different insurances which is less than thirty percent.
According to Ngilu over sixty percent of Kitui residents are classified as poor and therefore lack the means to meet daily needs such as health.
" Over eighty percent of our people are depended on public health facilities this places a huge demand for our county government to allocate resources to meet the needs", she said.
"Thirty three percent of annual Kitui budget goes in health but with this MOU we have therefore decided to set aside ten percent of this allocation every year to support our vulnerable households to enroll to UHC through NHIF", she added.
Ngilu says that this MOU will ensure as the county government they provide health insurance cover for over 85,000 households for the first time ever in Kitui and largely Kenya.
" I believe this will be the first time in our country when such a large number of ordinary wananchi in one county get health insurance. This will be a landmark achievement and one for which we are extremely grateful to President Uhuru Kenyatta who has enabled UHC dream come to life in this country", she emphasized.
NHIF CEO Peter Kamunyo says they are geared at socially protecting all citizens through Universal health coverage. " It gives me pleasure today to be signing an MOU with the county Government of Kitui supporting the healthcare in the county. And why so? because the spirit of UHC is leave no one behind and the spirit of Universal Health Coverage is to ensure all those who can pay and those who can't are identified and supported" said Kamunyo.
Kamunyo says they are focused at relieving Kenyans the burden of high cost of health and be productive. " The cost of Healthcare has continued and will continue to increase. This makes us one sickness away from poverty. Indeed it is true because 1 million Kenyans are driven to poverty every year because of catastrophic health expenditure", he added.
Kamunyo says it is important as the country goes through the scaleup for UHC they use the output base model known as an insurance model of risk transfer. " Basically what we are saying is that instead of carrying your own risk of health, be covered and the vehicle is NHIF and that you'll be able to transfer risk", said Kamunyo.
" To ensure that once you have transfer the risk, you'll be able to get adequate services and I thank Governor Ngilu for being a trailblazer on this era of ensuring most vulnerable get the care they need", he emphasized.
By Barrack Muli,
Governor's Press Service
Gov Ngilu, flanked by Kitui Environment and Natural Resources Minister Mr Koki Musau inspects minerals from Kitui |
Compost toilets bring
relief to students
NAIROBI, 25th October 2020, (PSCU) – President Uhuru Kenyatta has led the nation in mourning one of Kenya's top lawyers Phillip Nzamba Kitonga who passed away on Saturday at the age of 64 years.
The late Philip Nzamba Kitonga
In his message of comfort to the family, friends, relatives and the legal fraternity, the President described the departed Senior Counsel as a constitutional law stalwart and a patriotic Kenyan with unmatched legal prowess.
"I am deeply saddened by the death of my friend Senior Counsel Nzamba Kitonga, a fine constitutional lawyer and a trailblazer whose successes in public service are finely documented.
"We all remember and are forever indebted to Nzamba and his Committee of Experts for midwifing the 2010 constitution and for his many exploits as a lawyer of high standing," the President eulogised.
The Head of State said the death of Kitonga is a major blow to Kenya especially now that the country is gearing up for fundamental constitutional reforms through the ongoing BBI process.
“Senior Counsel Nzamba Kitonga played a major role in the drafting of the 2010 Constitution and as a country we really needed his input as we take audit of it through the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI).
“It is extremely sad that the cruel hand of death has snatched him from us at a time when our country is entering a constitutional moment,” the President Kenyatta wrote.
President Kenyatta prayed to God to comfort and give fortitude to the family, relatives and friends of the late Senior Counsel as they come to terms with his sudden death.
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The police officer who fatally attacked a Makueni lawyer will now face a murder charge.
Makueni County Police Commander Joseph Napeiyan told The Anchor that the new charge will substitute an earlier one of causing grievous harm.
This comes after the laywer- Onesmus Masaku- who was assaulted last week died today while undergoing treatment at the Kenyatta National Hospital.
Police Constable NjeriNjeri is being held at the Machakos GK Prison after prosecutors applied for a 14 -day authority to detain her ostensibly to await the recovery or otherwise of the victim.
The officer first alleged that the lawyer lured her to his house to introduce her to his wife to be. She alleges that the lawyer attempted to rape her.forcing her to fight him off using a machete.
He sustained severe injuries on his chest and hands, with one arm almost severed.
Police seemed to underwrite her version of the story until they made an about-turn later in the day and arrested her.
Investigators were waiting to hear the lawyer's side of the story to firm up their case against the claims made by the police officer that she attacked him in self defense. This will never happen now.
It remains a mystery whether the officer went to the lawyer's house with a machete or if she picked it from the house.
The lawyer was assaulted with a machete in his house by Nancy Njeri of Makueni Police Station.
Today, Mr Mutisya Mutia, who is the chairman of the Law Society of Kenya South Eastern Branch said Masaku succumbed to injuries inflicted on him today morning .
Mutia send condolonces to family members and all lawyers of the country .
He described Masaku as a hard working legal mind and his death is a shock and a great loss to this country .
However Mutia urged Kenyans to stop taking law into their hands and condemned the act of the police officer .
‘’ No one should loose life the way Masaku has’’, said Mutia
Mutia has promised that the society shall continue with case in court .
Laywer Masaku comes from Kathiani, Machakos County.
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The Makueni based laywer- Onesmus Masaku who was assaulted by a female police officer last week has died.
The late Mr MasakuThe lawyer was assaulted with a machete in his house by Nancy Njeri of Makueni Police Station.
The officer claimed at the time that the lawyer attempted to rape her after luring her to the house allegedly to be introduced to the lawyer's fiancee.
The police later arrested the officer and has since been in custody reportedly facing an attempted murder charge in a Machakos court.
Today, Mr Mutisya Mutia, who is the chairman of the Law Society of Kenya South Eastern Branch said Masaku succumbed to injuries inflicted on him today morning .
Mutia send condolonces to family members and all lawyers of the country .
He described Masaku as a hard working legal mind and his death is a shock and a great loss to this country .
However Mutia urged Kenyans to stop taking law into their hands and condemned the act of the police officer .
‘’ No one should loose life the way Masaku has’’, said Mutia
Mutia has promised that the society shall continue with case in court .
Laywer Masaku comes from Kathiani, Machakos County.
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