Showdown looms as workers reject Uhuru's housing taxPresident Uhuru Kenyatta. Affordable housing is one of the pillars of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s legacy. Under the Big 4 agenda the Government is to provide 500,000 decent, affordable housing units by 2022. Outstanding issuesAmong the outstanding issues is petitions filed in court by the employers’ umbrella body and the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu). The directive to employers to start deducting and remitting 1.5 per cent of workers’ pay plus their contributions to the government is a fraud,” Mutoro said.

Source: Standard Digital April 16, 2019 21:05 UTC