Saturday, January 12, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
KENYAN MPS VOTE THEMSELVES £17 MILLION BONUS
Kenyan MPs have quietly voted themselves a £17 million bonus to be paid when they leave office, despite the country's president vetoing an earlier attempt to approve the package.
The Bill, agreed in a late-night parliamentary sitting on Wednesday, also gave each former MP an armed guard for life, a diplomatic passport, guaranteed access to airport VIP lounges, and a state funeral.
Kenya's legislators are already among the highest paid in the world, earning £82,000 a year, compared to a backbench British MP's £65,738 salary.
Mwai Kibaki, the president, threw out his MPs' attempts to pass the same Bill in October, calling it "unconstitutional" and "unaffordable". It would take the average Kenyan 66 years to earn the £75,000 each MP will take home under the measure.
It was not clear if Mr Kibaki would be able to block the Bill's passage a second time.
As Kenya enters the last two months before elections, the supposedly cash-strapped government – which could not raise money for teachers' salary increases – has announced a raft of new spending.
Close to £75 million will be sent to MPs before the March polls to allow them to "complete constituency projects" before they stand down, the nation's Treasury announced late last month.
The move has widely been interpreted as handing incumbent politicians a war-chest with which to fight for re-election.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
HIS WORSHIP JERRY SILAA VISITS GONGO LA MBOTO
Mayor of Ilala Municipal Council who also is The Councilor for the Gongo La Mboto Ward His worship Jerry Silaa visited various projects in his ward amongst them being in mtaa wa Gulukakwalala whereby he visited a dispensary which he built between 2005-2010 and he personally pledged to get it equipped with various instruments to measure diabetes, blood pressure and a portable ultrasound machine.
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