63 MCAs Ordered to Return ‘Christmas Allowances’ Awarded Irregularly
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has summoned over 100 Bungoma MCAs and assembly staff who allegedly received Christmas allowances irregularly.
According to the Authority, 63 MCAs received Sh30,000 each while each of the 70 assembly staff received Sh20,000 during the 2015 – 2016 financial year.
The commission said it established that the payments amounting to Sh3.2 million were done through irregular imprest forms.
EACC wants the MCAs and assembly staff to appear before it to pick their letters.
The letters ask the MCAs and staff to return the cash and all interest accumulated within 14 days, failure to which civil right proceeding would be initiated against them.
THE STANDARD
KENYA
Phanice Weyaga shows her X-ray results confirming that she was shot thrice. She has had to live with two bullets in her chest. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]
Phanice Weyaga remembers vividly the events of the night of October 14, 2017.
On this night, bullets fired by a fellow student left her with a life-threatening wound.
While her life was spared, her dream of becoming a lawyer was killed.
Phanice, now 20, was then in Form Two at Lokichogio Mixed Secondary School in Turkana County.
She says a student from South Sudan, who had been suspended for two weeks, came armed that night in a revenge mission against the school.