{"id":4749,"date":"2014-03-08T12:05:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T12:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=4749"},"modified":"2014-03-08T12:05:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T12:05:43","slug":"kenyan-president-and-cabinet-take-pay-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=4749","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan president and cabinet take pay cut"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Kenyatta says the government wage bill is “unsustainable”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced that he and his cabinet will take a pay cut to help bring down the government’s wage bill.<\/p>\n

President Kenyatta said that he and his deputy William Ruto would take a 20% cut while other ministers would have their pay reduced by 10%.<\/p>\n

Foreign trips, he said, would be kept to a minimum.<\/p>\n

Mr Kenyatta also urged Kenyan MPs, who are among the highest paid in Africa, to accept cuts.<\/p>\n

Correspondents say the issue of politicians’ pay is a highly sensitive issue in Kenya.<\/p>\n

Mr Kenyatta said the government was spending close to $4.6bn (\u00a32.7bn) in salaries, leaving only $2.3bn for development.<\/p>\n

“We need to deal with this monster if we are to develop this nation otherwise sooner or later we will become a nation that only collects taxes to pay ourselves,” President Kenyatta said.<\/p>\n

He was speaking at the end of a cabinet retreat near Mount Kenya that was reviewing progress made one year since he was elected.<\/p>\n

Mr Kenyatta announced a month after his election that he would make reducing Kenya’s ballooning public sector wage bill a priority.<\/p>\n

He said it was “unsustainable” and weighed on the national budget.<\/p>\n

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Credit: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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