Uhuru issues a veiled criticism of SHA
Former and retired President Uhuru Kenyatta, on Friday, September 26, 2025, issued a veiled criticism of the Social Health Authority (SHA) that succeeded the defunct National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF).
Speaking during the Jubilee Party’s National Delegates Conference (NDC) at Ngong Racecourse along Ngong Road in Nairobi, the former Head of State took pride in his administration’s achievements, including the Linda Mama programme, which enabled expectant women to deliver in public hospitals free of charge.
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In his message, Uhuru, without directly mentioning SHA, said Kenyans are being subjected to experimental schemes that are untested and untried.
“Today, Linda Mama has been abandoned and replaced by new, untried and untested schemes. While we wait for these experiments to succeed, Kenyans continue to suffer and our progress is slowed,” he said.
Learning from the past
Uhuru warned that dwelling on rhetoric instead of delivering real progress often leads to repeating past mistakes.
“As we dwell on rhetoric rather than real progress, we repeat the mistakes of the past. The past can guide us, but it is the present that can shape the future,” he told the delegates.
He urged Jubilee Party members to reflect on their direction and the lessons learned.
“We need to ask ourselves: where are we, and where do we want to go? Some things have become apparent to me.
“You succeed by building on past successes, injecting new ideas, and improving upon them; and you fail by ignoring past mistakes, thereby falling into the trap of repeating them,” Uhuru stated.
Uhuru encourages the youth
The former President also emphasised the importance of youth participation in shaping the country’s policies.
“Listening to younger generations is crucial, for it is through their insights that real transformation can occur,” he said, adding that his efforts to convey this message in the last general election were largely ignored.
“In the last general election, I endeavoured to pass on this message, but unfortunately it fell on deaf ears, drowned out by the noise of insults, character assassinations, myths, and the stories of hustlers and dynasties,” Uhuru concluded.
