TOP TRENDS: #NyongoPlaylist

It’s a no-brainer why the Mheshimiwa Anyang’ Nyongo is making headlines across the country, thanks to the events that are taking place at the National Hospital Insurance Fund.

Just to keep you in the loop of things, in case you’ve been in a powerless cocoon (partly thanks to Kenya Power) or you just don’t watch the news anymore, the whistle has been blown on the NHIF scheme of increasing the percentage the fund takes off your salary to facilitate universal health care.

The Chairman of the Board at NHIF started this domino effect by going ahead to suspend the CEO over the mis-appropriation of funds which were meant to be going to hospitals and clinics throughout Kenya but were instead going to non-existent or ‘one day’ facilities, clearly revealing the massive extent of the claws of corruption.

Kenyans on social networks have been outraged by the fact that the Health Minister Nyong’o ended up chastizing the NHIF Board Chairman for his actions and is already releasing the next round of funding, even as there clearly is fault with the first quarter round of disbursement.

Social media regulars started the trend #NyongoPlaylist as the NHIF building in Nairobi’s unofficially tagged ‘goverment alley’ of Upper Hill caught fire in its lower floor early today. They are basically comical relief updates and statuses that are placing accusing fingers at whoever the perpetrators are of this ‘mass looting’ of public funds.

Here’s a sample of the tweets on the hashtag #nyongoplaylist