The Unclaimed Financial Assets Authority-UFAA will Monday begin giving funds and assets worth billions of shillings to beneficiaries.
The state agency will kick off the first phase of the campaign at three coastal counties of Mombasa, Kwale and Taita Taveta.
They collectively have unclaimed assets worth over Kshs.400 million.
UFAA chief executive John Mwangi had earlier said the big hurdle is that most people assume they do not have anything to claim or think it does not apply to them.
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Mwangi called on members of the public to search if they are listed on the UFAA database.
The authority has deployed a robust ICT infrastructure that enables searchable database on its website as well as a mobile USSD code to facilitate reunification.
Assets are regarded as unclaimed when an owner of properties including income, dividends or interest does not take any action during a certain duration by law to indicate ownership or awareness of their existence.
