Lifestyle28 February 2023 - 08:57

Big health facility suspends M-Pesa and makes patients use cash

Who does what and where

by The Star

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Who's doing what to whom, where, why, when and how

A major health facility in one of the counties has reportedly been forced to suspend the use of M-Pesa in preference for cash in payment for services by patients. Reason? A team of 'inspectors' has allegedly unearthed a major scandal involving top officials, where millions are being embezzled monthly. Our mole confides that the team has been camping at the facility for the last one week, combing through the books of accounts and threatening to release an explosive dossier should they not get their share. The management, Corridors is told, is apparently struggling to raise as much as Sh2 million before the normal service is restored. Questions are now rife on whether the governor is aware or involved.

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A second-term MP from North Rift was reportedly left sweating after his attempt to claim credit for recent job appointments flopped. He apparently called the appointees for rounds of expensive booze and tasty goat ribs synonymous with the county, only for the appointees to scoff and call him out. It is rumored that the MP does not get along with the rest of the county leadership and claiming the appointments would have bettered his dwindling political fortunes.

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A man who has been shortlisted for an appointment to a plum job in government can't hide his joy. Talk of counting your chicks before they hatch, the politico was overheard at a public baraza in his hood saying it was only a matter of time before he relocates to the City to serve the nation. So confident is the outspoken man that he even threw a beer party for his friends at his residence. Corridors understand the man reported to be stingy spent thousands of shillings while bragging of how he will redeem himself after the appointment.

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A prominent businessman is a worried man. This is after a multi-state agency team sniffed into his business dealings, which are alleged to be mainly in contraband goods. The businessman is worried that the multi- agency team may soon catch up with him and his business empire may go up in smoke. He is now reported to be running up and down trying to get political support to avoid prosecution and his business crumbling. There are a number of businessmen who have been operating using tourist visas on the purported radar of detectives.

(Edited by V. Graham)

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