In total, the public will spend Sh4.3 billion a year on 222 MPs’ salaries and their many allowances. Currently, the MPs’ salaries and allowances other than sitting allowances cost the taxpayer Sh2.2 billion per year. This will rise to Sh3.3 billion under the new plan. The annual bill for sitting allowances alone will be Sh1 billion.The cost of MPs’ wages is only Sh100 million less than the Sh4.4 billion set aside for the purchase of medicine for all hospitals in Kenya under the current budget. MPs’ sitting allowances alone exceed the Sh900 million the government has set aside to buy ARVs for HIV patients this financial year.It is equal to the Sh1 billion the government intends to spend on recruitment of 15 nurses and five health technicians in each of the 210 constituencies. Each MP will cost Sh123 million for one parliamentary term, a lot more money than what the government intends to use to build 200 fish ponds across the country this financial year.Salaries and allowances for all MPs for one term will be Sh27.3 billion, more than the budget for free primary education and the purchase of computers in each of the 210 constituencies this financial year. But the MPs’ salaries and allowances are set to balloon to Sh5.2 billion every year if the proposed constitution sails through, creating a 350-member Parliament, only Sh200 million short of the money the Treasury has set aside for rural electrification which will see 3,310 public institutions in rural areas connected to the national grid this financial year
via Daily Nation: - News |Not with Kenyans tax money.
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