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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the law also amends Section 4(e), where the Director of Medical Services or his or her representative was supposed to sit on the board. It has been substituted with Director General for Health or his or her representative to capture the new Health Act. The new addition to that Section is that an additional person will be nominated by the CoGs, who has knowledge and experience relating to health. The Senate, in its amendments, is proposing that this Section be amended by deleting the words in Paragraph (k) and substituting with the word ‘three.’ Three persons will represent the CoGs, considering that health is a heavily devolved function. We would like to have more representatives from the counties seating at the NHIF. That will be one of the ways of breaking the cartels. There are cartels that have been in the NHIF since its beginning. Those people never leave the fund, and they are not poor. Those individuals have benefitted from the NHIF by employing their friends and relatives while stealing money. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is serious looting of public resources at the NHIF. However, the individuals who sit at the fund board to represent the workers and employers are eternally in those institutions. They have devised means and mechanisms of dodging the rule of law. Some of those individuals are politically correct, so they are not charged or investigated. Many times, the CEO and other senior managers get arrested and charged, but the Board has never been charged; yet most of the expenditure by the NHIF was approved by the board. The Board membership never changes because it is almost cast in stone. It represents ministries, workers and employers. It is the same individuals who nominate themselves. It is unbelievable that some of the Board members of the NHIF can give us lectures about democracy. Some of the Board members that I am talking about are very close to the Senator for Nairobi City County. I hope that while having private conversations, Sen. Sakaja can convince his friends to leave the Fund for other young and vibrant minds."
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