Eating chiefs named as Human Rights Watch raises red flag over Covid-19 cash transfers

Women in Kisumu demonstrate at St Luke's ACK in Manyatta after allegedly being conned by an organization which promised them Covid relief funds. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

How Annette Okumu missed out on the Sh10 billion cash transfer programme meant to cushion the vulnerable from the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic is a puzzle she is yet to unravel. Despite enrolling for the programme through the Nyumba Kumi initiative in Kibra, Nairobi County, not a cent made her phone chime.

“There are those who got Sh1,000 monthly, others weekly but just for three months and some like me did not get a cent even after enrolling,” she said.