The Uwezo Fund Oversight Board has cautioned the public to beware of fraudsters soliciting money from them in the pretext that they would facilitate their loans’ applications.
Speaking in Kiambu town Tuesday, the Fund’s chief executive Wilfred Buyema said the board had received information that some conmen and women were defrauding the public Sh375 for allegedly processing the Uwezo Fund application forms.
He said the fraudsters were using a fake website www.uwezofund.org and email submissions@uwezo-fund.org.
He urged residents not to pay anyone any money on the promise of facilitating the loan application processes as forms could be downloaded free of charge from the Uwezo Fund website www.uwezo.go.ke and from all Constituency Development Fund offices countrywide as well as the Uwezo Fund headquarters at Lonrho House, Nairobi.
“The fraudsters are giving people a pay bill number for paying Sh375 bank ledger fee, cheating them that the applied funds would be disbursed from October 15, this year to all the 47 counties,” said Buyema.
In a press release availed on Monday, the CEO said people interested in applying for the loans could also use the board’s email address info@uwezo.go.ke.
He further stated that the fraudsters, led by a woman posing as a senior accounts manager were promising unsuspecting Kenyans that they could apply as individuals for the loans online.
The CEO said the board did not issue individual loans to its beneficiaries but to groups that included women, youths and persons with disability which met the loan’s eligibility criteria.
Buyema asked Kenyans to report the fraudsters to the police or the Board and disregard any information from the conmen.