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State dysfunction to blame for WorldCoin activities, MPs told

Communication Authority of Kenya Director General Ezra Chiloba. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Dysfunction among state agencies and negligence facilitated WorldCoin's activities, estimated to have cost the foreign firm in excess of Sh2.4 billion in inducements to Kenyans.

This emerged from hearings by a parliamentary committee, where data-mining gadgets belonging to the controversial cryptocurrency, WorldCoin, entered the country undetected and without licences.

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