Grandson Burns His Grandmother To Death Over Inua Jamii Funds

The main National Safety Net Program (NSSP) of the Government of Kenya (GoK), Inua Jamii, aims to improve the lives of Kenya's poor and vulnerable inhabitants through dependable, routine bimonthly cash payments.

The programme was launched by Ex-President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2015 as one of the channels for his administration to tackle poverty.

The programme has since helped thousands of Kenyans but then it has also caused chaos in many families.

Recently, investigations have been started by police in Khwisero, Kakamega into the death by burns of an 80-year-old woman at her home in the Shetimba hamlet.

According to the family, Philoris was expected to receive Ksh.8,000 from the government's Inua Jamii cash transfer programme when the suspect, her grandson Lisero, started demanding for it.

The old woman was inside the house when Lisero is thought to have set it on fire in a fit of wrath.

Silas is being treated at Sonak Khwisero Hospital, according to  OCPD Kipyego Kogo, and will likely have a psychiatric evaluation before being charged.

The deceased's body has since been transported to the mortuary at the Yala hospital.