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Safaricom fires 24 employees for M-Pesa fraud

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Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Safaricom fired 24 employees in the year ended March 2022 for fraud-related offences, down from 28 a year before.

The telco's latest sustainability report released on Tuesday, October 18, indicated it conducted 27 investigations into alleged fraud, dismissing the 24 and warning three others.

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