Former Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi has linked the financial operations of the Social Health Authority (SHA) to the leadership disputes currently rocking Nairobi Hospital.
Writing on his official social media pages on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, the former attorney general alleged that the government’s health financing model, led by President William Ruto, features a structure that allows for opaque financial dealings under the mask of reform.
Muturi contended that the system’s initial promise of transparency and accountability faded as soon as public scrutiny intensified. He claimed the legislative framework for the SHA served as a foundation for a calculated scheme rather than genuine medical reform.
“With regard to the Social Health Authority (SHA), many Kenyans will recall that I raised concerns from the very beginning when William Ruto and the then health cabinet secretary, Susan Nakhumicha were crafting the laws that now anchor this SHA nonsense. What was presented as reform was, in truth, a carefully structured scheme,” Muturi stated.
The former CS pointed out that while the public could initially track where funds were being directed, that level of openness vanished once the system became fully operational.
“At inception, the system was projected as robust and transparent, with clear visibility of institutions receiving payments. Kenyans could see where money was going. But that transparency was short-lived.”
Muturi pointed to reports of payments made to non-existent health facilities in northern Kenya as an early warning sign of deeper systemic flaws. He further linked the lack of transparency in SHA operations to the current leadership struggles at Nairobi Hospital, suggesting that controlling such a prominent institution serves as a strategy to manage large-scale financial flows.
The former attorney general insisted that these patterns reveal a broader plan to consolidate power over high-profile medical centers. He argued that moving these institutions into the government’s inner circle makes it easier to mask significant financial transfers.
“The moment Kenyans, together with the Auditor General began raising red flags particularly on questionable payments for services in Mandera County and Wajir County to facilities that do not exist that transparency was abruptly withdrawn. The system was shut off from public view,” Muturi wrote on X.
Muturi concluded by warning that the push for control over Nairobi Hospital likely stems from a desire to justify massive expenditures that the public would otherwise find suspicious.
“It is therefore not surprising that there are now attempts to acquire Nairobi Hospital. Once such a major institution is brought into the fold, it becomes easier to attribute huge sums of money to it, knowing very well that Kenyans will not question payments tied to a known facility.”
“That is the thinking. That is the mindset. That is the design of William Ruto,” Muturi concluded.
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