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Judiciary is broke, judges and staff lose medical cover

Judiciary Human Resources Acting Director Onyango in a memo to staff, dated June 7, said the scheme stood suspended from June 7. [File, Standard]

Medical insurance cover for all judges and its employees have been suspended over insufficiency of funds in a move linked to national government threats to ‘revisit’ judiciary.

In the drastic moved on Friday, all judicial staff, including Chief Justice David Maraga will now have to use their pocket money to access medical services or rely on the limited National Hospital Insurance Fund cover.

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