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14,000 dead people got stipend for old citizens

The Sh2,000 monthly payment is released bi-monthly. PHOTO | FILE | AFP

What you need to know:

  • The Social Protection Department said it has removed the beneficiaries from its registry.

Taxpayers have been losing millions of shillings in monthly stipends to ghost beneficiaries of a social protection scheme after a headcount revealed that about 14,262 dead people remain on payroll.

The Social Protection Department said it has removed the beneficiaries from its registry.