A multi-billion pension scheme has asked some 300 Kenyans to collect their money nearly 21 years after they became eligible.
In an advert carried in local dailies on Tuesday, January, Telposta Pension Scheme published the names of all the 300 people eligible for the pay out.
Out of the total figure, nearly 150 members had already passed away and the scheme urged the families of the dead to initiate the process of claiming their kins' payouts.
The members are said to have left the pension scheme for various reasons.
"The following Telposta Pension Scheme and Telposta Provident Fund members who left the service of the employer for various reasons or their beneficiaries/dependants are requested to present themselves to Telposta Pension Scheme offices to claim their retirement benefits," read the statement in part.
The members were classified into various categories including those who had attained the age of 55 years as well as those who had begun the process of claiming their payouts but abandoned midway.
The scheme was established to benefit employees of the defunct Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC) which was a government company that provided telecommunication and postal services across Kenya.
It was split in 1999 into Telkom Kenya, Kenya Postal Corporation and the Communication Commission of Kenya,(CCK).
To make their claim, the beneficiaries will be expected to present a National ID card, Employment letter and termination letters.
Other requirements include death certificates/burial permits, marriage certificates, birth certificates, baptism cards, birth notifications and a letter from local area chief.
East African Posts and Telecommunications Corporation provided postal services across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda between 1948 and 1977.
Around the same time, the emergence of the East African Community (EAC) prompted Kenya to set up KPTC as a monopoly but was separated after new laws were introduced in the 1990s.
