President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered Salaries and Remuneration Commission to start paying security officers' field allowance starting this month. "Watu wa salaries commission mko wapi? Where are these people's field allowance?) Speaking in Mombasa on Friday, Uhuru scolded the SRC on why they were delaying to pay the officers. Uhuru directed the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) to ensure security officers working in terror hot-spots in the North-Eastern region and parts of the Coast receive a field allowance.

Source: The Star January 17, 2020 12:00 UTC