High Court orders Governor Mutua to release Ksh.93M MCA salaries

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Dr Alfred Mutua

By  Citizen DigitaL

Machakos High Court has ordered Governor
Alfred Mutua to immediately release Ksh.93,453,051 to the Machakos County
Assembly for salaries and operational expenses.
During the hearing, presided over by Judge
George Odunga, the court heard that Machakos MCAs as well as County Assembly
staff have not been paid their salaries for the past two months.
The MCAs are further proposing that 50% of
contracts at Thwake multipurpose dam go to local contractors.
Governor Mutua was on Thursday November 15
ordered by the Senate Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC) to
release salaries of the MCAs.
The Committee issued the directive, accusing
the county chief of frustrating the Assembly for impeaching his Deputy Governor
Eng. Francis Maliti as the County Executive for Finance.
Machakos, Makueni and Kitui Counties to
form Ukambani ecocomic bloc
Embu MCA asked to vacate Ksh.800-a-month
hospital servant quarters
Senate orders Governor Mutua to release
MCA salaries
Mutua reportedly ordered his Finance
Minister not to disburse the MCAs’ salaries, accusing them of failing to
approve the County Integrated Development Plan.
“The members of the county assembly who
are fighting me approved their own salaries but failed to approve money for
development. I have said they should also not get their salaries if they will
not approve money for development,” Governor Mutua was previously quoted by a
local daily.

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