President William Ruto has highlighted some of his government’s achievements in 2023 and capped it with thinly veiled criticism of the Judiciary over some of the decisions it rendered regarding government policies. "The introduction of the housing levy... is discriminatory, irrational, and arbitrary and is in violation... of the Constitution," Justice David Majanja said. The impugned Acts which Ruto said are aimed at granting all Kenyans equal access to medical care are the Social Health Insurance Act, 2023, the Primary Health Care Act, 2023 and the Digital Health Act, 2023. The Social Health Insurance Act, of 2023 among other things, provides for the extension of health insurance to all Kenyans based on member contributions, with government-subsidised coverage for the poor. “Let us therefore reflect very deeply about the ways in which we act and speak in the name of the Constitution.”

Source: Daily Nation January 01, 2024 00:47 UTC