[INDENT]A bill will be tabled in the Nakuru assembly to push for payment of retirement benefits and pension to former councillors. During a meeting with former mayors and council chairmen, Gov- ernor Lee Kinyanjui said leaders who served in the defunct local govern- ments laid the ground for the current county governments system. [/INDENT]
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[INDENT]The former councillors said they were disillusioned because the national government had abandoned them and they should be credited for building hospitals, schools, factories and other infrastructure. The governor said another meeting to be attended by all former councillors will be held later in the year. [/INDENT]
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[INDENT]“A number of governors occupy offices previously used by mayors while sub-county officers occupy premises used by council chairmen,” Kinyanjui said. [/INDENT]
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[INDENT]He urged MCAs to pass the bill because it will benefit them when they retire from politics.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]NGAFANA with Alicen Clelaite - former Nakuru Mayor[/INDENT]
Wage bill has shot of the roof, capital expenditure on development is almost unheard of in Nakuru County - yet this ng’ombe wants to reward people who were already paid for doing their jobs!!?
The councillors, MCAs and Senators ought to be contributing to a pension fund to avoid poverty in old age; not depend on retirement benefits they did pay into, during their active years in service. If Development funds are utilised for this purpose it will disadvantage the region.