The MPs’ house allowance was paid by the Treasury through the legal opinion of Attorney-General Kihara Kariuki. But MPs were the only category of State officers affected, as they were denied a house allowance unlike governors, their deputies, Cabinet secretaries, judges, principal secretaries, members of constitutional commissions and independent offices. The MPs’ house allowance was paid by the Treasury through the legal opinion of Attorney-General Kihara Kariuki. Justice Mwita’s ruling came after deputy governors filed a case claiming the SRC decision to leave them out was discriminatory. SRC did not appeal the ruling and instead “secretly” wrote to governors requiring them to give their deputies a house or a house allowance.

Source: Daily Nation May 17, 2019 03:56 UTC