THE STANDARD By
Frankline Sunday |
February 14th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Acting Director-General Communications Authority of Kenya Mercy Wanjau during World Post Day celebrations in Nairobi. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
The Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) and the National Assembly are at loggerheads over a proposal to inject Sh1 billion annually into the Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK), dealing a blow to the efforts to revive the ailing parastatal.
The National Assembly had recommended that CA injects Sh1 billion annually into PCK from proceeds of the Universal Service Fund (USF), the authority’s kitty to finance network infrastructure development in marginalised areas.
The proposals are contained in a report by Parliament’s Labour and Social Welfare Committee, following hearings on PCK’s failure to pay employee salaries between March and August last year.