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MPs fault cash transfer programme for elderly

A section of MPs during the Parliament Session after the long recess . February 11th,2025. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Legislators yesterday criticized the old persons cash transfers program to citizens aged 70 years and above terming it a conduit of corruption thanks to its opaque operations.

During a debate of the Social Protection Bill, 2025 on the floor of the House, MPs also called for an increase in the Sh2,000 amount doled out to the elderly and an implementation of stronger administrative mechanisms to guard the purse.

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