Kitale School. FILE PHOTO | NMG A Senate committee has waded into a row over Kitale School’s 10-acre land the institution says was illegally allocated to a former associate of President Daniel arap Moi.
The Senate Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources will today visit the school, which accuses former Kenya Seed managing director Nathaniel Tum of illegally taking the land.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) had directed Mr Tum to surrender the title in 30 days, according to a June 28 letter.
“Take note that if the said documents of title are not surrendered to the commission within the next 30 days from the date hereof, the commission shall institute recovery proceedings against you without any further notice,” said EACC North Rift deputy regional boss Mark Ndiema in the letter.
The documents in question, EACC said, are the certificate of lease, and all other documents issued to him on March 1, 2013.
The dispute goes back to 1994 when Mr Tum, the powerful late President Moi’s associate, was allocated a parcel of land Kitale Municipality Block 12/132, measuring four hectares.
The school had been occupying the land since its inception in 1929.
NHIF Building in Upper Hill, Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG Kenyans without proof of National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) membership will be locked out of government services under proposed rules that seek compulsory enrolment of every adult in the State-run medical scheme.
The NHIF says membership to the fund will be ranked equally with other State documents such as Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) when in search of government services.
This means that non-NHIF members will be barred from making critical transactions such as registration of land titles, approval of development plans, transfer and licensing of motor vehicles, and registration of business names and companies.
If accepted, those without active NHIF membership would also be cut from services such as underwriting of insurance policies, customs clearing, and forwarding, payment of deposits for power connections, supplying goods and services to the State, as well as opening accounts with financial institutions.
The government-backed National Hospital Insurance Fund (Amendment) Bill seeks to make it compulsory for every Kenyan above 18 years to contribute and be a member of the NHIF. They will be required to pay Sh500 monthly in a remodelled universal health coverage (UHC) scheme for outpatient and inpatient services, including maternity, dialysis, cancer treatment and surgery.“We are looking at tying the […]
