Wiper Patriotic Front Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has promised to restore honesty to Kenya’s public health insurance system.

According to Kalonzo, unnamed officials have stolen money intended for citizens.

Speaking in an interview with a local station on Sunday, March 29, 2026, Kalonzo said he would scrap the current health system and go back to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to stop widespread corruption if he got the chance to lead the nation in the 2027 polls.

“I would go back to NHIF and stop the stealing because this money is going to people’s pockets, and we do not know how much money is enough for some of these people,” Kalonzo said.

The former vice president said that people who are accused of mismanaging funds are already making plans to leave so they won’t have to face the consequences.

“I hear that a lot of them are beginning to see that the inevitable will happen, so they are beginning to make ways of exiting even before they are caught up,” Kalonzo stated.

SHA approval

President William Ruto’s cabinet on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, approved the transition from the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to the new Social Health Authority (SHA) beginning on July 1, 2024.

“In furtherance of the implementation of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC), a key pillar of the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda, Cabinet approved the framework for a full transition from the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) to the Social Health Authority (SHA) beginning July 1, 2024,” a Cabinet statement said.

The cabinet approved conducting a nationwide registration exercise among members of the public for the new health policy that began on June 21, 2024, in all 47 counties and across all platforms.

Ruto’s administration has been encouraging Kenyans to register for the health policy as part of the wider goal of achieving universal health coverage for all.

Gachagua on SHA collapse

Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, while speaking during a church service at the ACK Diocese of Kirinyaga on Sunday, March 29, 2026, issued a warning over the future of the country’s healthcare system, claiming that the Social Health Authority (SHA) could collapse within the next six months, potentially triggering a nationwide health crisis.

Gachagua claimed that he had credible information indicating that the system is under severe financial strain.

“We have a big challenge with our hospitals. I have information that SHA will collapse in another six months, and there will be a major crisis of unknown magnitude in the health sector,” Gachagua warned.