Kenyan
President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced he and his deputy William Ruto
will be taking a 20-percent pay cut and ministers’ salaries will be
reduced by 10 percent in a bid to rein in the country’s soaring public
wage bill.
The pay cuts will take...
place “with
immediate effect,” Kenyatta said in a speech on Friday, adding that the
current spending levels were unsustainable.
The government will also limit foreign
travel to only the most essential trips, according to Kenyatta. “Wastage
in my government will be significantly reduced,” he said.
“We are spending 400 billion shillings
($4.6 billion, 3.3 billion euros) every year paying salaries; it leaves
us only from our own resources a figure of 200 billion shillings to
transform Kenya,” Kenyatta said.
“This is why we are saying that is the
ratio which is not sustainable… We need to deal with this monster if we
are to develop this nation.”
MPs last year reluctantly took a
40-percent pay cut, bringing their monthly pay checks down to around
532,000 shillings ($6,100, 4,400 euros).
The lawmakers had initially voted to
give themselves a pay rise, sparking protests from activists, before
agreeing to accept the salary reduction ordered by the Salaries and
Remuneration Commission in return for other benefits.
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..omg! Jesu! What a leader?...Uhuru all the way! We love you our dear president.
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