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Ajira digital programme headed for review

By Frankline Sunday | Jul. 17, 2018
Joe Mucheru, Kenya's ICT Cabinet Secretary

NAIROBI, KENYA: The Ajira Digital programme is headed for review as stakeholders mull options for turning around the flopped project.

Launched by ICT cabinet secretary Joe Mucheru in 2016, Ajira was aimed at creating job opportunities with government promising to connect 1million young people to well paying online jobs through the state-run platform by 2017.

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