Kenyan
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- Jun 7, 2012
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Parliament has been hit by a serious cash crunch, to an extent that expenses and other allowances for the 349 MPs are not being processed. MPs are unable to pay their constituency staff and they are already complaining of being broke, just five days after they were paid.
So grim is the situation that Kenya Power (KP) disconnected power at the main Parliament Buildings on Friday over contested bills and electricity was restored Monday afternoon after high-level intervention.
Monday, National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi, who is also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), held crisis talks with the Treasury to resolve the financial problems.
The MPs have put the accountants at Parliament on the edge because they are tired of the terse response whenever they make claims that there's no money.
The fury of the lawmakers Monday made the managers of the bicameral Parliament call an urgent meeting with the Treasury to agree on how the billions of shillings earmarked for the august House in the current financial year will be disbursed.
PSC, which is tasked with handling the pay issues of MPs both in the Senate and the National Assembly, has been under siege from staff and even MPs on why there was a delay in the payment of salaries and allowances, including a marked delay in the processing of mileage claims.
The MPs are under pressure from their constituency staff, many of whom have not been paid since the beginning of the current financial year on July 1 this year.
The Speaker confirmed to The Standard that the meeting with the Treasury was held late Monday to deal with the trickle in the Exchequer releases the public funds as issued to different State organs and Government departments to cater for their budgets.
Standard Digital
So grim is the situation that Kenya Power (KP) disconnected power at the main Parliament Buildings on Friday over contested bills and electricity was restored Monday afternoon after high-level intervention.
Monday, National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi, who is also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), held crisis talks with the Treasury to resolve the financial problems.
The MPs have put the accountants at Parliament on the edge because they are tired of the terse response whenever they make claims that there's no money.
The fury of the lawmakers Monday made the managers of the bicameral Parliament call an urgent meeting with the Treasury to agree on how the billions of shillings earmarked for the august House in the current financial year will be disbursed.
PSC, which is tasked with handling the pay issues of MPs both in the Senate and the National Assembly, has been under siege from staff and even MPs on why there was a delay in the payment of salaries and allowances, including a marked delay in the processing of mileage claims.
The MPs are under pressure from their constituency staff, many of whom have not been paid since the beginning of the current financial year on July 1 this year.
The Speaker confirmed to The Standard that the meeting with the Treasury was held late Monday to deal with the trickle in the Exchequer releases the public funds as issued to different State organs and Government departments to cater for their budgets.
Standard Digital