[Source: Business Daily, by Edwin Mutai]
The government will in October stop free weekly cash transfers to poor households affected by the economic knocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, ending six months of social safeguards to the vulnerable groups.
Labour and Social Protection Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui told Parliament that the payments would be terminated in the first week of October.
Some 341,958 households have since May received the weekly Sh1,000 stipends to cushion them from the dire economic conditions caused by…
