Tanzania: Mfenesini MP Proposes Monthly Pensions for All Legislators

Dodoma — AS public outcry on exorbitant MPs' packages and salaries heats up, another MP has demanded a monthly payment of 1m/- as pension after completing their terms of office.

Mr Nassir Suleiman Omar (Mfenesini-CCM) demanded that law makers be paid at least 1m/- per month as it was in other countries such as Kenya. He said that even the Zanzibar Parliament had approved a monthly payment of 1m/- to House Representatives who complete their terms.

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