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The Supreme Court will today give directions in a case in which pensioners seek to stop the state from effecting the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) contributions.
Last month, the matter had come up in court where the Supreme Court’s Registrar Bernard Kasavuli directed the parties in the case to file the required documents before this morning.
The County Pensioners Association moved to the Supreme Court following a decision by the Court of Appeal that set the motion for the NSSF to increase workers’ monthly deductions from March 9, 2023.
The NSSF act increases monthly contributions to the NSSF by 98 per cent (that is from Sh200 to Sh2160).
The act provides for further increases in subsequent years.
The association represents 6,000 retirees who were contributors to the local authorities’ pensions trust.
The association says implementing the Act poses a serious threat of monopoly and will impoverish the entire pension industry.
They want the Apex Court to bar the NSSF Board of Trustees, the Retirement Benefits Authority and the Federation of Kenya Employees (FKE) from increasing workers’ monthly deductions.
Also in courts, a Nairobi court will today rule whether 10 individuals linked to the Sh67 million gold scam will be charged or not.
This comes after the suspects who appeared before Milimani senior principal magistrate Esther Kimilu failed to plead to charges as their file was forwarded to the DPP’s office for consideration before deciding whether or not to charge them.
The senior state prosecutor applied to have the plea deferred to enable the DPP to review the case.
Kimilu ordered that the case be mentioned this morning for the prosecution to confirm the next steps.
The court will also mention a case in which comedian Eric Omondi has been charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly on Parliament Road.
Omondi was charged alongside 17 others. It was alleged that on February 21 at Parliament Road they took part in an unlawful assembly.
They denied the charge and were released on a Sh20,000 bond or an alternative cash bail of Sh10,000.
Through their lawyer Danstan Omari, they had asked for lenient bail terms.
Omari said the charge sheet reads that they have been charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly.
He told Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina that all of them are content creators, adding that Omondi is a Kenyan global brand.
“They went to Parliament to get a solution to the current high cost of living. I urge the court to take judicial notice that 6 million Kenyans are at the verge of starving,” Omari said.