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Kenyan taxpayers have been paying Mama Ngina Kenyatta a monthly salary of more than Sh500,000, it has now emerged.
Business Daily on Friday reported that it had obtained documents from the Presidency showing that Mama Ngina has been pocketing Sh568,218 tax-free monthly income, raising questions whether the payment is legal.
The pay is 50 percent of the pension that Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first President, would be earning if he was alive, according to the publication.
Mama Ngina’s salary is also exempted from tax in line with the Presidential Retirement Benefits Act of 2003.
National Treasury told Business Daily that the payment was made to her in her capacity as a surviving spouse to founding President Kenyatta who passed away in 1978.
At the time of Kenyatta’s death, there was no existing law on the pension and benefits that his widow would be entitled to.
In 2003, Parliament passed the Presidential Retirement Benefits Act which provides a legal framework for payment of pensions to former Presidents and their surviving spouses.
“Upon the death of a serving President or of a retired President who is in receipt of or who is entitled to a pension under this Act, his surviving spouse shall be entitled to benefits amounting to fifty percent of such pension,” the Act reads in part.
It is not clear whether the 2003 law can be backdated to apply to Mama Ngina whose husband died in office twenty-five years before.
Former presidents are entitled to a monthly pension that is equal to 80 percent of the current President’s salary.
Presently, President Uhuru takes home Sh1.44 million monthly salary which translates to Sh1.15 million pension entitlements for former Presidents.
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This should remind some of us of the Kenyattas and the poor Lazarians around her in Gatundu.
Why is she still collecting on a dead man's pension 41 years after his death yet teachers wait years to see their first payment
former presidents getting 80% for what? these are people who stole billions from kenyans and then on top of that they get 1M pay every month, whatever sacrifices kenyatta made for kenya he has been repaid tenfold, Kimathi and the likes who actually paid the ultimate price got zero, Kimathi's wife should be getting the 1M, moi and the kenyattas should be in Jail for looting public resources
Well said and said and stated☹️☹️
What makes some people being so heartless? Hawana utu. They do not have conscious of sin or doing wrong things.
THIS LADY IS VERY CORRUPT AND SHE IS A THIEF. MWIZI KABISA YEYE.
Am tired! Mzigo hii....sasa mtoto wangu pia.. Why hasn't Ngina said NO....same to Kibaki... they have enough and they see how people have become impoverished, left, right, center. Some people have no shame, no conscience. Even Trump is a better animal, he at least declined a salary knowing he'd be making money using his office..... Here they hit both ways....hata crumbs wanakula. God have mercy!!!
There is greed which we see in the mpigs then there is having no shame which we see in this woman but the absolute worst is the kenyan who continue to be duped by the likes of Uhuru and Ruto.
Then you hear some silly kenyans asking people to pray & repent yet we're being sucked dry by the royal families! I wonder why we keep pretending we don't see the problem & hope that things are going to get better every coming year! The fate of 47+ million is in the hands of less than 3 individuals! Pooh!
Since when did being somebodies wife become qualification for anything. The animal farm has come alive in Kenya.