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Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale addresses a press conference on SHA payment claims, at Afya House, Nairobi, on August 25, 2025. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard]
A probe into a suspected Sh24 billion Social Health Authority (SHA) fraud has reopened old wounds at the Ministry of Health, that has long been branded a hotbed of corruption.
The revelations of massive false claims at SHA, an agency established to anchor President William Ruto’s flagship universal health coverage programme, have once again cast Afya House — nicknamed Mafia House— into disrepute.
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