So at the end of this month most Kenyans will experience an exploitative hand of one professor who of late has no speaking boundaries. It’s a fact and the million-dollar question is why now? The Medical Services minister, Prof Anyang Nyong’o, has succeeded in dodging this question though he flatly bragged on how little the contributions were than his lunch.
Retrospectively, the new policy is paining for young professionals who are barely savouring their hard-earned 50k salary. For starters these young fellows, must fork out sh1, 500 just like anyone else getting sh99, 999. Here is the shocker: anyone getting sh100, 000 and above; to like 20 million pays only sh2, 000. That’s how unfair the deal is. A mere middle level employee chucks the same amount as any CEO with a bulging sh5 million a month or any tycoon who rakes billions of shillings.
If this is not the most unfair social system in the world then it’s up there with the most. What hurts most is the utter arrogance and don’t care attitude by those who proposed it.
Many Kenyans are outraged by it but nobody has been there to listen, in fact they have been brandished busybodies.
Nyong'o and company see the dissatisfied voices as dogs in the manger but it's not true. They are sober Kenyans who in their right minds want to express sobriety.
Francis Atwoli, the speaking tyrant who does not hesitate to rant when rattled, questioned the viability of the proposal. And rapid fire sort of response from the Prof, the cool minister of Medical Services, an ODM diehard legislator, the learned guy who ever bleaches his hair, moustache, and beard and the king of MPs aloof to constituents, was a mouthful to the ever ranting Atwoli. He though responded in equal measure but Nyong’o’s salvo was bitter enough for all and sundry.
For uninterested parties, Nyong’o’s lunch on Thursday, the 2nd, was worth sh2, 500 at- you didn’t guess right- not a cheap hotel for lilliputians but Serena Hotel where only bourgeois and above belongs. He did say it openly and wasn’t apologetic. So when he was munching, let’s say, fish, omena and cousins, plus exotic drinks all worth the mentioned amount, a proletariat like you was busy working hard to get sh50 for only supper-no lunch-sh2, 450 less of Nyong’o’s lunch. But at the end of the day all (including him, Mps and Safaricom CEO) will be subjected to a system which glorifies the rich and hugely punishes the poor.
Fairly it would be better if a formula was derived to guide in NHIF deductions. Arbitrary ways guided by hidden agenda to extort little earners, while letting off big earners, is totally unacceptable.
That aside, when a legal framework is in place, then its timing pops up. With 2012 general election around the corner and funds for campaigns needed, such a programme cannot go without scrutiny. Such questions as: Is the programme a cash cow for his political party? If not, why introduce such an expensive policy and dictate the amounts to contribute to those affected? And after doing that refuse to avail a clear framework on how the money will be utilised.
Prof minister we need answers.
Just by the way...
*“If a desperate woman can crash a gate, what will stop her from crushing you when she is with you in the house,” overheard a man commenting about the hungry-for-good-men single women who attended last Friday’s symposium on how to approach men. Speaking of the conference; police should investigate potential lies spread by those who attended-the said ‘proposals’ don’t add up unless men are that silly to propose over the phone.
*Another thing: Were the single women praying for men in general or single men. I need clarification because if they were praying for families to break so they can get their men of substance, I bet they lost it.
*Nyong’aing is a coined word from nyong’a (strangle) so please don’t struggle googling looking for it in a dictionary.
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