Category: Omtatah

  • Omtatah seeks to block new national health cover plan

    Busia Senator Okiya Umtatah and two others have moved to court seeking to block the implementation of the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) before its launch today. Mr Umtatah argues with Mr Eliud Karanja Matindi and Dr Magari Jikini that the subsidiary legislation required to operationalize the Social Health Insurance…

  • Okiya Omtatah in court to cut mobile connection charges

    Busia Senator Okiya Umtatah has moved to court seeking to overturn the Mobile Termination Rates (MTR) set by the Kenya Communications Authority (CA) last November, arguing that they are arbitrary and the highest in the region. The regulator set the mid-term price at Sh0.41 per minute on November 17, 2023,…