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Kenya Railways staff retirement benefits scheme pensioners protest outside Treasury, Nairobi, in March 2022. [File, Standard]
For Rodgers Washika and over 10,000 fellow former Kenya Railways workers, retirement has become a cruel battle for survival, with delayed pension payments pushing them to the brink of destitution after decades of service.
These retirees, whose average age is 75, depend on their monthly stipends for life’s essentials—most critically, medicine and hospital bills.
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