Abdul Galgalo Munishram
NHIF CEO Geoffrey Gitau Mwangi and acting Finance Director Wilbert Kiplangat Kurgat were released on November 28 by Anti-Corruption Court Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi.
The court granted them a Sh1 million bond each, along with a surety of a similar amount, about the multi-billion NHIF scandal. An investigation has revealed that Abdul Galgalo Munishram, an ally of Aden Duale, is allegedly involved in the NHIF scandal. The document title suggests that Munishram played a significant role in the scandal.
Interestingly, the duo were arrested and charged solely for conspiracy to defeat justice and disobedience of a lawful order; no other charges have been pressed against them. This begs the question: who stole close to Sh2 billion in shillings from NHIF?
Tucked innocently at number 10 (Roman x) in a list released by DPP Noordin Haji is one Abdul Galgalo Munishram, Director of Messer’s Munshiram International Business System, a software development and consultancy company specializing in payment systems, management systems, card-based systems, and systems integrations, contracted by NHIF to steer an ambitious plan to roll out a fully biometric system, which would take three years to deploy fully.
While announcing the plan, the former CEO, Geoffrey Mwangi, now facing graft charges, revealed that NHIF had already registered all civil servants in a database that the biometric system would refer to, besides fitting 1,370 hospitals with biometric kits in a test pilot program.
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According to Mwangi, ideal, Kenyans would not be required to produce their NHIF card at even the remotest of health centers to be treated; all they had to do was place a finger on a machine as we did during the 2017 general election to access affordable health services. Sounds good and easy, right? Well, it should have been!
Unfortunately, just like it happened with NYS, cartels were already angling to get this lucrative tender. That’s how billionaire businessman Abdul Galgalo Munishram, Aden Duale’s long-time business partner, came into the picture. A credible source reveals that Abdul Galgalo was introduced to a senior Rift Valley politician at an exclusive residence in Karen suburbs.
What should have been a genuine business deal metamorphosed into a multi-billion-dollar scandal after ‘powerful’ people in government demanded Sh400 million from Abdul Galgalo. The businessman agreed, but on the condition that NHIF make advance payments to facilitate the importation of the biometrics.
Shockingly, despite NHIF making full payments for the supply and installation of the biometrics across the country, only four hospitals were fitted. Three years down the line, Abdul Galgalo disappeared in thin air after being prodded severally by the CEO to honor the tender and make the supplies.
The former NHIF CEO Geoffrey Mwangi and his acting Finance Director Wilbert Kiplangat Kurgat are mere scapegoats; no wonder they are facing ridiculous charges of ‘obstructing justice.’ The real cartel is in Karen.
