Jobs to go as Uhuru adminstration revokes registrations of 525 NGOs in Kenya, freezes their accounts

Will Robertson, programme manager for Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF), addresses a press conference in Nairobi recently on the the ongoing clashes in South Sudan. MSF has been given 12 days to submit its audited financial statements or be struck off the register. [Photo:File]

NAIROBI: At the stroke of a pen, hundreds of Kenyans are set to be jobless after 525 not-for-profit organisations officially became illegal after being struck off the register and their accounts frozen.

Of the number, 15are accused of financing and facilitating terrorist groups, although they have not been listed in the report because the NGO Co-ordination Board Executive Director Fazul MahamedYusuf said it would compromise investigations still under way.