Pensioners suffer as their Sh67b goes down the drain

Auditor General Edward Ouko.

In what could turn out to be another mega-scandal in the Jubilee government, the State paid out Sh67.9 billion as pension to people who were not entitled to receive the cash, and others whose identities could not be verified.

The Treasury, without explanation, paid Sh1.6 billion to 962 people before their exit dates from public service even as thousands of workers who retired years earlier languished at home waiting for the processing of their retirement benefits.