Community Health Promoters (CHPs) working under the Umoja 1 Health Centre in Embakasi West have raised serious concerns over alleged mistreatment and systemic frustration at their workplace.
They claim that a senior official at the facility has created a toxic and demoralising environment, citing unfair report handling, intimidation, irregularities in stipend allocation, and favouritism.
Some CHPs allege being sidelined or replaced under questionable circumstances, while others say they have been threatened for demanding accountability.
The situation, they warn, is pushing some out of the public health field altogether.
“Hi Nyakundi, please highlight this and hide my identity. There’s a lady called Lillian Tito, who’s the Community Health Administrator (CHA) at Umoja 1 Health Centre, Embakasi West… who’s corrupt, rude and so terrible. During end months, when Community Health Promoters (CHP) bring their reports, she picks some and tears some even after attaining the required 80% and above threshold in order to get the monthly stipends & according to the way she knows you and this has demoralized CHPs up to a point some are opting to leave the field and these are some of the things she’s done: During the last polio vaccine last year, she recruited minors who are high school students and below 18 years, leaving CHPs at home. There’s one unit that has not been receiving the National Government Stipend of 2,500 p.m and she sabotaged the list whereby she inserted new members, leaving the real and long-time CHPs out of the stipend list and until now, she’s yet to respond to how this happened. Each and every time CHPs ask for accountability, they’re met by threats like “I will not take your monthly report” etc. She has her own cabinet of illiterate fools who gossip and take back reports to her on who’s bad and not toeing the line. She threatens CHPs that nothing and no one can remove her from where she is now, and so CHPs are having a hard time at Umoja 1 Health Centre facility. Kindly highlight this and even her seniors at the Ministry can see what’s happening on the ground and if need be she should be transferred because that’s unacceptable!!!”
