On Saturday, September 21, local newspapers reported extensively on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua fighting for his position in the Kenya Kwanza administration amid reports that there is a plot to oust him.
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1. The Saturday Standard
The newspaper reported that the woman of Nakuru has sued his brother and sister-in-law for preventing the family from finding their 92-year-old sick mother, who needs treatment and care.
Grace Njenga accused her brother, Charles Itangi, and his wife, Josephine Gathoni, of not taking care of their mother, Peninah Wamucii.
He sought an order before Magistrate Heston Nyaga to compel the couple to allow their mother to receive treatment, hire a qualified caregiver, and have a guardian appointed to take care of her care.
Njenga claimed that the couple had abandoned their mother and prevented the family from reaching her.
The court ordered the couple to allow Njenga to accompany the mother to the hospital for treatment within 10 days.
Judge Nyaga also ordered the medical report to be submitted to the court within 14 days. The case will be mentioned on October 7 for further instructions.
2. Saturday Nation
The publication reported that Kenyans will be cut 2.75% of their monthly income from October as planned by the government after the Court of Appeal extended the order to stay the decision to repeal the health laws.
In upholding the government's plan to launch the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), a three-judge bench of the Court of Appeal ruled that the Ministry of Health's appeal was moot.
Judges Francis Tuiyott, Abida Ali-Aroni and Lydia Achode said the argument of the Ministry of Health that it is impossible for the public to participate within 120 days as ordered by the High Court is true.
The judges also said that the submission that it is not possible to do public participation on the laws that have already been made, is also valid.
“While we make no call on the merits of these two arguments, we do not think they are trivial. In a word, the appeal is moot,” the judges said.
The Supreme Court declared in July that the Social Health Insurance Act (SHIA), the Primary Health Care Act, and the Digital Health Act, which replaced the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) were unconstitutional. by not involving the citizens.
Justices Alfred Mabeya, Robert Limo and Fred Mugambi, however, suspended their decision for 120 days to allow parliament to conduct adequate and inclusive public awareness and participation, before enacting the law.
The Ministry through the Senior Advocate Fred Ngatia explained that those 120 days will not be enough for the participation of the people to save the Law.
Furthermore, Ngatia wondered whether public participation after the passage of a law that the Supreme Court ordered could validate laws that have already been found to be unconstitutional.
“Therefore, it appears to us that if the stay is not granted, then there is a real possibility that the 120 days will pass and the declaration of unconstitutionality will automatically begin,” the judges said.
The judges of the Court of Appeal found that the three laws began on November 22, 2023, after the repeal of the Law of NHIFand all NHIF functions were to be taken over by the Social Health Insurance Authority.
“We are reaching this decision because the laws have been with us for nine months and allow the system in which the health sector works to return to the old system and the possibility of returning to the current system (if an appeal is successful) is to put this important sector indisputable in a state of volatility and uncertainty,” the judges added.
3. Nation Today
The MP who had promised to get married just after getting his PhD can finally break his celibacy after graduation.
Gideon Kimaiyo, 37, Member of Parliament for Keiyo South, graduated with a PhD in Relationship of International during the graduation ceremony at the University of Nairobi.
“In this department we had seven students and Gideon was one of them, I am pleased with their hard work, and they have successfully graduated,” said the Head of the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Gideon Maluki.
He won the parliamentary seat in 2022 while still a bachelor, despite having three master's degrees.
In an interview, he said that he is now ready to end his bachelorhood and face those who had mocked him.
“Now I can get married even if it's this Saturday or even Friday, I made a promise and I'm happy to fulfill it, people have made fun of me for not having a wife in politics, but now I'll have to find another reason,” said the member of parliament of the first phase, elected under the party UDA.
Opponents had described him as an unsuitable leader to lead those who are married.
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