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Audit reveals Inua Jamii paid stipends to 'dead' beneficiaries

Labour and Social Protection PS Joseph Motari said the government was unknowingly paying stipends to ineligible individuals. [File, Standard]

It has now emerged that at least 100,000 ineligible Kenyans received payments under the Inua Jamii Cash Transfer Programme.

Principal Secretary for Social Protection and Senior Citizens Affairs, Joseph Motari, on Thursday said that an audit uncovered that the Kenyan government was unknowingly paying stipends to ineligible individuals.

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