Kenya: MPs Hatch Plan to Get Sh3b Billion as Send-Off Pay for 8 Months 'Lost'

8 February 2017

MPs have set in motion a plan to get them paid an estimated Sh3.7 billion. They say this is for the eight months their five-year term will be cut when the General Election is held on August 8.

At a Budget committee meeting with the Treasury and the salaries commission, the MPs insisted they must be given "severance pay" in lieu of the months they feel entitled to.

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