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A section of elderly women and men wait to receive cash in Matungu sub county, Kakamega County. [Standard]
The Government’s cash transfer programme to the elderly has been hijacked by the rich, the World Bank has said in a new report.
The Washington-based institution found that for every Sh1 spent on the programme, 73 cents go to the well-off, a situation that has consigned many elderly people to poverty.
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