Kenya: Former Telkom Workers Wallow in Poverty As Pension Scheme Holds On to Payout
On a bright Wednesday morning, Agnes Ouma sits on a blue plastic chair outside her neighbour's house, in Jamhuri estate on Ngong road. She is going through her phone book. Midway, she pauses and laments: "Nobody receives my calls these days." She thinks that most of her contacts have blacklisted her. Because whenever she calls, it is to ask for financial help. Since retrenchment, she says, she has been reduced to a borrower -- borrowing without any clear plan to repay. "No...
