MPs Demand Answers over Foreigners in Kenya’s Payroll Since Independence
The National Treasury has been taken to task over the payment of millions of shillings to foreigners hired by the British colonial administration.
The National Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC) wants the Treasury to provide proof that Asians and Europeans who continue to earn a pension from public coffers are still alive. The pensioners served in the British colonial government and retired before and shortly after independence in 1963.
The committee gave Treasury PS Julius Muia seven days to table the pensioners’ personal details and life certificates before payments can be effected in line with the Pension Department’s internal controls.
“We cannot pay millions to nonexistent people since 1963. If they are alive, they were laid off 58 years ago. We want life certificates and payments schedules within a week,” said Garissa Township MP Aden Duale.
The retirees receive the payments in sterling pounds through Crown Agents Bank, a development bank regulated by the UK Financial Services Authority.
Kenyan taxpayers paid Sh262 million in pension to the foreigners, with Sh150 million going to living retirees while Sh112 million was paid to widows of the deceased foreign workers.
Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu raised the red flag on the Treasury’s pension payroll for retired Asian and European workers, saying that no evidence was provided that the pensioners’ personal files and life certificates were submitted before payments were made.
The colonial-era pensioners are required to file life certificates every year and when they die, Crown Agents delete their names from the records.
The UK foots 75 percent of the pension to former colonial employees while Kenya pays the balance of 25 percent.
“We have no life certificates. We will get details about the recipients of Sh61.9 million. These people are in Kenya and I request you give us two weeks to furnish these details,” Dr. Muia told the committee.
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This is one more evidence of…
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This is one more evidence of the unfinished business of Kenya's liberation from colonial yoke. Nearly half the population of Kenya subsist on less than a dollar a day (IMF stats), yet the left-over colonial parasites take home - KSh262 million. Why are the university students fees being hiked two to three times if we are showering those who oppressed us with money? How can we be so stupid almost 60 years since independence?
Since 1963? We continued…
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Since 1963? We continued paying the colonial masters and their families after they maimed,raped,castrated, lynched and killed our forefathers and stole our forefathers land. This is very embarrassing, painful and difficult to understand.
The colonial masters and their families are paid as our own Maumau children have languished in poverty since 1963.
When will Kenyans demand all the contracts that were signed between our leaders and the colonial masters at the so called "independence".
What time is it? Time for revelation and restoration. We need more to be revealed and it will.
Who are these people? Who are their families? Who are their forefathers? What part did their forefathers play in the colonial Kenya? How much money have each of them been paid? If these people are still in Kenya what is their status and how did they acquire such status-
Kenyans need to wake up and do research. We need to do some serious research. We need to hold our own people accountable for everything that has taken place since "independence" and re- define our parasitic relationship with our colonial masters. How can we be paying their families and we are taking loans from them?
Kenyans need more information and more details.....
This shit right here makes…
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This shit right here makes my Slopes blood Boil...Like Seriously how incompetent is these people running these departments. Why are we paying these people???...We really need new leaders in Kenya. So you telling me I'm paying my taxes to fund my Grandmothers rapists life style. DEDAN KIMATHI I will sing your praises until I die...The LEADER Kenya was never given a chance to have. May your ghost come back and bring down the wrath to these British puppets sell outs...{Kamau wa Muigai}
Why are we paying the 25%…
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Why are we paying the 25% and we’ve never been paid or compensated for what they stole from us?
So, they killed and robbed our people and we I turn agreed to pay them billions a year? Surely, who needs the money the most?
This fraud. U get robbed…
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This fraud. U get robbed then thank the robber and pay him for his crimes of robbing you? Oxymoron. They still sit on tea land that they killed and robbed the living for it. Why is it so hard to cancel the queen and her drones?
Haiti and france had a worse deal. They forced Haiti to take a loan from France to pay slaveholders for lost stuff. Loan was 40x France annual budget.
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