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Government should be more transparent on affordable housing project

Mukuru

Mukuru affordable housing project units in Nairobi on May 10, 2025.
 

Photo credit: Bonface Bogita | Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

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  • Plainclothes security personnel escorting VIPs, Douglas Kaumbuthu Aritho notes, have been seen falling off moving vehicles.

Housing levy • While the affordable housing programme is being funded by the monthly housing levies deducted from employees’ salaries and employers’ contributions, the completed units are being handed out to people who will be paying rent, notes Ruth Gituma. “Can the authorities explain who gets the rent? This raises questions about the transparency of this project.” Her contact is [email protected].

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