Senate Blasts SHA for Withholding KSh 8 Billion Due to Bereaved Families.

The Senate has unleashed a scathing rebuke at the Social Health Authority (SHA), accusing it of callously delaying over KSh 8 billion in insurance payouts owed to the surviving families of devoted civil servants who died while in service to the nation.

Senator Wakoli Wafula of Bungoma delivered the explosive charge in Senate chambers, demanding an immediate probe into the repeated failure to release long-overdue benefits for insurance schemes meant to support grieving families. These unpaid claims span Group Life, Work Injury, Last Expense, and Group Personal Accident coverage—and have lingered unresolved for several fiscal years.

One of the most heart-wrenching cases highlighted involved the family of a senior government dentist who lost his life treating Covid-19 patients. Even five years later, they remain unpaid a staggering KSh 29.9 million.

According to Treasury insiders, the root of the crisis lies in a funding bottleneck. Though a partial sum of KSh 1.6 billion has been released as a “goodwill gesture,” a hefty backlog of KSh 3.93 billion remains in limbo—compounding the anguish of over 7,000 affected households.

This collapse in execution has left thousands of bereaved families grappling with financial strain and growing disillusionment toward institutions that were supposed to protect them in their most vulnerable hour.

As the Senate Health Committee gears up to conduct a full investigation, the public now awaits swift accountability and a credible timeline for zeroing the claims once and for all.

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