The government has responded to allegations that Adani group, the embattled Indian conglomerate, was involved in the Social Health Authority (SHA) rollout.
Government Spokesperson Isaac Mwaura said those allegations were false and went ahead to break down his explanation.
"There is NO contract between SHA and any service provider on digitization of Universal Healthcare Software," the statement read in part.
According to Mwaura, SHA inherited an existing contract between the defunct NHIF and the service providers of the system they were using called HICS.
"SHA is part of the bigger health digitization agenda that involves KEMSA, Regulators - KMPDC, PPB, Nursing Council, etc (17 regulators) Health Care providers- hospitals and health care workers devices, connectivity, power back up, licenses, etc," said Mwaura.
He also pointed an accusing finger at cartels for linking Adani to SHA saying they were beneficiaries of the now-defunct NHIF at the expense of citizens.
Fact Check by NTV
Mwaura also responded to a fact-checking analysis of President William Ruto's State of the Nation Address that was done by Nation Media Group on Thursday, November 21, 2024.
The media house fact-checked five aspects of Ruto's speech and found some of the president's claims to be false, others true, and some they could not independently confirm.
NTV fact-checked Ruto's claims on the reduction of expenditure from 2022 and found them to be false. Similarly, Ruto's claims about a 14 per cent increase in milk production were also found to be false.
Regarding the clearing of pending claims on health, the media house could not verify the claims, while the assertion that the government is listening to Kenyans did not align with industry data.
On the claim that the government had digitised services from 350 to 20,855, representing almost 6000% growth, the media house could not independently confirm the figures but verified that the arithmetic was correct.
Responding to the fact-check, Mwaura dismissed the report, terming it false.
He claimed that the publication's calculations on milk production were incorrect and that the information shared was misleading.
"Their stated source, the May 2024 Economic Survey, clearly indicates that the figures they cited for 2023 were only provisional. Consequently, their fact-check of the President’s State of the Nation Address is thus incorrect, misleading and unwarranted," Mwura stated.
Mwaura insisted that Ruto's claims were true and that milk production increased by 14 per cent to 5.2 billion liters in 2023. He went on to reveal that the government is planning to boost livestock farming and continue to grow the numbers.
