A proposal by Parliament to have former MPs who served between 1984 and 2001 get a lump sum payment of Sh2.7 billion and a monthly lifetime pay of not less than Sh100,000 has been rejected by Treasury.
The government termed the move illegal since Parliament failed to consult Treasury on the Bill proposing the payment as required by Section 114 of the Constitution, Majority Leader in the National Assembly Aden Duale said.
The section requires Parliament to get the views of the Treasury before debating any Bill that concerns taxation or government spending.
Duale said Treasury was not consulted in the Bill sponsored by Minority Leader John Mbadi and which received the backing of Finance and National Planning Committee last week.
“I will be moving a motion to withdraw the Bill. This is because the committee did not take into account the Treasury’s views in approving the privately sponsored Bill,” Duale said as quoted by Business Daily.
“This is a money Bill that has financial implications on the government,” Duale added.
The Bill proposes that the pension entitlement for about 290 former MPs is raised to at least Sh100,000 per month for life, up from the current average of Sh33,000.
It also wants 80 other former MPs who had been excluded from pension be entitled to the payout, placing them at par with MPs who served after 2002 and who pocket a minimum of Sh120, 000 monthly.
The payment would have been backdated to January 2010, meaning the former MPs would have received a lump sum of Sh6 million each, being Sh100,000 monthly for 119 months to date.
“This is a lot of public money and the Treasury’s views should have been taken into account by the Finance committee, which it didn’t. I will be moving a motion that the Bill be stood down,” Duale said.
Hardly to you ever hear…
Hardly to you ever hear elected representatives in countries like USA,Canada,or the UK clamor for higher paychecks. Hardly 3months pass before some Mpig tables abill to hike their benefits.Is that all they think of?What ashame,when there is alot to do in the country.
I would be the first to fight for their pay raises,and benefits if the following was done in Kenya:
Corruption 0%
Teachers well paid
Hospitals well funded-doctors and nurses well paid
no more slums in our cities
Nairobi streets cleaned out
Unemployment 5%
Our athletes doping 0%
Exam cheats 0%
Crime down by half what it is now.
Free education
No more water shortages in our cities
No Electicity shortages
No starvation threats anywhere in Kenya.
When Isay doctors,and nurses should be well paid,I mean well enough not to have then complain and threaten strikes every other month.I believe for what they do, they are underpaid,especially under the conditions they work in.
I believe that majority of Kenyans will agree with me that if Mpigs could fulfill the aformentioned public concern,nobody would complain if they lived like kings.Well not quite like King mswati…
these fools. what have they…
these fools. what have they done to deserve all this?! MAFI YA KUKU
All they care about are…
All they care about are their stomachs. Why not fight for all employees to be compensated in like manner? What do MPs do that’s so special and unlike what other employees do? Why should they get special treatment from the taxpayers? Is it because they have a big mouth and can shout louder than anybody else?