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Agony as retirees wait in long queues to be counted

Hundreds of Pensioners queue outside the Huduma Center in Nakuru town on March 11, 2019 for registration. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Samuel Ngugi, 62, braved the long queue at the Huduma Centre in Nakuru where he had gone for a headcount of retirees.

The headcount is intended to weed out thousands of ghost pensioners that the State says could be siphoning millions of shillings monthly.

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