Kenya Government To Offer Relief Funds To Jobless Citizens Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

The government has announced through the Labour Ministry that several jobless Kenyans would be receiving monthly stipends.

Labour Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui said that around 1.2 million Kenyans had lost their jobs since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country in March. The worst-hit sectors being warehousing, retail, hotel, and accommodation seeing over 600,000 workers losing their jobs.

This financial proposal is set to target only 350,000 jobless Kenyans who will receive Ksh 5,000 for three months.

Simon Chelugui noted:

“We are doing this, with our source of information being the recent household survey by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.

We have also carried out our engagement with the social partners, which is the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) and the Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU).

Our focus is living, to ensure livelihoods are sustained so, in that case, we would also have to go out of our way to ensure that we support these people

That is briefly, actions and plans that we as Ministry of Labour and Social Protection have taken to ensure that we minimize the pain caused to these vulnerable groups”

It is not yet clear when this program will officially start but questions are set to arise as to how the ministry determined the 350,000 figure.

Source: breakingnews.co.ke

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