[Elvis Ogina,Standard]MPs yesterday failed in their second bid to force through a Sh100,000 a month pension for former colleagues. They could not to raise the two-thirds majority required to overturn President Uhuru Kenyatta’s memorandum rejecting the Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Bill, 2019 that aimed to enhance pensions for former MPs. This also hits current MPs who hope to get a soft landing when they leave office. The National Assembly’s Finance and National Planning Committee had urged MPs to ignore the president’s memorandum rejecting the law. Uhuru argued putting the former MPs on such a monthly pension, as the Bill has proposed, would see the wage bill go up by Sh444 million.

Source: Standard Digital September 25, 2020 06:00 UTC