President Ruto admitted grappling with Kenyans who work hard to challenge his agenda.

President William Ruto admits that running Kenya is not a walk in the park.

The president acknowledged grappling with daily challenges of some Kenyans working hard to reverse his agenda.

While speaking to teacher on Saturday, September 13, at State House Nairobi, the head of state referenced the challenges in the health sector where fraudulent Kenyans try to undermine the new health insurance scheme in the Social Health Authority (SHA).

He restated that SHA was established to enhance Universal Health Care (UHC), stating that the now-defunct National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) had loopholes for fraud.

According to Ruto, the government has to deal with fraudulent individuals who want to cheat the system to steal public monies through fake claims.

“We are going to get rid of frauds who are stealing from us. Just imagine a hospital faking ten surgeries on one patient. They were filling forms for fake claims. When we were closing NHIF, it had Ksh 32 billion worth of debt from claims. But the frauds went to court to stop verification. We have now enhanced digital admission and discharge, and were now moving to biometrics. Using IDs is not enough. Some take deceased people’s IDs to process fake claims. Running Kenya is difficult. Because people are too intelligent. But we will deal with fake claims and fraud,” he said.

Despite such challenges, the president vowed to advance the war on cartelps fleecing the health sector 

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