guilty...guilty...guilty..

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7000 for lunch???
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/01/29/nyamira-mcas-must-refund-irregularly-paid-lunch-allowances-senate_c1285401

Nyamira MCAs must refund irregularly paid lunch allowances - Senate
By JAMES MBAKAJan. 29, 2016, 3:00 pm5 Comments
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 Nyamira Governor John Nyagarama and  county Deputy Governor Amos Nyaribo. Photo/FILE
Nyamira Governor John Nyagarama and county Deputy Governor Amos Nyaribo. Photo/FILE

The Senate has ordered all 33 Nyamira county MCAs to immediately refund Sh7,000 they each allegedly pocketed as lunch allowances.

The Public Accounts and Investments Committee said the MCAs and former Assembly Speaker Peter King'oina must be surcharged a total of Sh237,000.

A report by the Auditor General revealed each MCA was paid Sh10,000 instead of Sh 3,000 as lunch allowance for two days when they were scruitinising the bill in June 2014.

The law states that each MCA was to get Sh1,500 and the Speaker Sh2,000, a day as lunch allowance.

"We are going to ask the Senate Clerk to personally write to the Nyamira Assembly clerk to ensure the recovery is expedited," committee chairman Bonny Khalwale said.

The committee gave the Assembly three months to recover the money.

Khalwale, who is also Kakamega Senator, gave the directions after the county's treasury officials expressed concerns that recovering the money could be tricky due to hostilities between the Assembly and the Executive.

"These are public officers... they have nowhere to hide. They must pay back the money," said Nyamira Senator Mong'are Okongo.

They spoke during a Senate session to grill the Governor John Nyagarama and Assembly Speaker Joash Nyamoko.

The committee is expected to decide whether it will visit the county on February 19 to grill former assembly officials implicated in a Sh30 million insurance cover scandal.

Nyamoko objected a sitting in Nyamira over what he described as a hostile political environment following the axing of former Speaker King'oina and senior staff in 2015.

"The Speaker has approached and notified me that Nyamira may not be an ideal venue to hold our meeting and that we should consider having it here in Nairobi. I leave that to the committee," Khalwale said.