Narok Senator Ledama Olekina has chided plans to move police insurance benefits from National Hospital Insurance Fund to CIC.
Ledama claimed that it was a wrong move saying it will also reduce police benefits.
"Police insurance benefits must be fixed! You can’t take it away from NHIF to CIC and reduce their benefits," he said.
He urged former Chief Justice David Maraga who chairs the police and prison reforms taskforce to oversee to look into the matter.
"This is wrong, Maraga as you look into the police reforms don’t overlook this new development! We must take care of our police welfare," he said.
On November 31, 2022, there were concerns within the National Police Service and Kenya Prisons Service after the state medical insurer lost a bid to renew the contract to provide comprehensive medical cover.
NHIF was on December 16 informed it had lost the tender to a consortium of private insurance firms.
The firms are led by CIC General Insurance Led (Leader of the Consortium), Old Mutual General Insurance Kenya Limited and Britam General Insurance Company (K) Limited.
The move was seen as a big loss for NHIF given the two agencies were seen as some of the biggest clients.
NPS Principal Administrative Secretary Bernice Lemedeket said NHIF quoted Sh9.3 billion whereas the winners quoted Sh8.6 billion.
“We regret to inform you that your bid was unsuccessful for the reasons that it was not the lowest technically responsive bid in the financial evaluation,” she said.
NHIF has been offering the cover for almost eight years and insiders said it was fairly better.
