MPs in the House during a past session. The Parliamentary Service Commission has budgeted to spend Sh2.4 billion on the severance pay for lawmakers. PHOTO | FILE
Senators will be paid Sh410 million while their National Assembly counterparts are to get a total of Sh1.9 billion.
Each category of lawmaker would be paid their eight months salary at once.
Already, a case is in court against the pay-off, while some MPs, among them Nyamira Senator Kennedy Okong’o, have criticised the idea.
The Parliamentary Service Commission has budgeted to spend Sh2.4 billion on the severance pay for lawmakers.
In documents tabled by the Budget and Appropriations Committee, senators will be paid Sh410 million while their National Assembly counterparts are to get a total of Sh1.9 billion.
