Cabinet Secretary for Health Aden Duale when he appeared before the Senate Health Committee at Bunge Tower on May 7, 2026.

📋 Breaking It Down

A fresh legal dispute has erupted over how the government selected 14 private companies to run the mandatory insurance scheme for foreign visitors, a programme requiring them to carry health insurance worth at least Sh6.4 million.

Vantage Point Ventures Limited, the petitioner, wants the court to compel the government to disclose how 14 private insurers were selected to participate in the scheme.

The legal dispute concerns a mandatory insurance market created by the Social Health Insurance Act for non-Kenyans intending to enter and remain in the country for less than 12 months.  The government later set minimum cumulative benefits at $50,000, about Sh6.4 million.

📌 What You Need to Know

Vantage Point Ventures Limited says while its consortium pursued the programme under the Ministry of Health’s administrative framework, a separate commercial arrangement involving “14 pre-selected insurers”, Kenya Reinsurance Corporation and Minet Kenya Insurance Brokers emerged.

According to documents filed at the High Court in Nairobi, Vantage Point had formed a consortium with Madison General Insurance Kenya Limited and Madanes-Option (CYP) Limited and submitted a comprehensive proposal to the Ministry in November 2025.

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The company says it later learnt of the alternative arrangement involving 14 insurers, Kenya Re and Minet but was not given the criteria used to select them or the legal basis for their roles. It has not named the 14 insurers.

The case started early this month after the government announced the mandatory health insurance for foreign visitors.

Vantage Point is asking the court to compel the respondents to disclose the selection process, evaluation records, contracts, reinsurance arrangements, payment systems and other documents underpinning the programme.

📰 Source: Nation Africa