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THE STANDARD By Dominic Omondi | February 27th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 The taxman has deflated the spirits of Members of County Assemblies after confirming that the car grants they received from the State will be taxed. In an advisory to the chairman of the Council of Governors (CoG) Chairman Martin Wambora, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) said the loan, which had been converted into a grant following a presidential decree, would attract a 30 per cent income tax before hitting the accoun...

Nairobi MCAs Allocate Ksh246M for Car Grant Traffic snarl-up at Uhuru Highway in Nairobi Kenyans.co.ke Nairobi County MCAs allocated Ksh 264 million for car grants in the 2020/21 supplementary budget tabled before the County Assembly on Thursday, February 18.  The lawmakers said that they were following the presidential pronouncement where President Kenyatta announced MCAs will get a Ksh 2 million car grant in what was seen as an incentive to pass the BBI initiative. The amount was included ...

Fistfight erupts between warring groups of MCAs after court upholds Ndegwa Wahome's impeachment

THE STANDARD By James Munyeki | February 23rd 2021 at 16:31:29 GMT +0300 There was chaos at the Nyandarua County Assembly on Tuesday afternoon after a group of men wearing black suits stormed the chambers and tried to steal the Speakers Mace. The raid is reported to have occurred barely two hours after MCAs unanimously passed the Constitution Amendment Bill 2020. The group of five heavily -built men are said to have tried to take away the mace leading to a fistfight between two factions alli...

FACT CHECK ODM leader Raila Odinga at Ratanga village in Ndhiwa constituency on February 20, 2021. [Collins Oduor, Standard] ODM leader Raila Odinga’s statement on the Controller of Budget’s comments on MCAs’ car grant has been circulating online. The letter started circulating on Monday 22 February 2021 and is dated the same day.  “My attention is drawn to a letter by the Office of the Controller of Budget (OCOB) … purported that the car grant to MCAs directed by His Excellency the...

The allocation follows a pledge by President Uhuru Kenyatta during a meeting in January with MCAs at the Sagana State lodge

THE STANDARD KENYA President Uhuru Kenyatta [File, Standard] Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) may have to wait a little longer to benefit from President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Sh4.5 billion car grant pledge. Just days after the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) chair Lynn Mengich gave the green light to governors to effect the conversion of the car loan into car grants in line with President Kenyatta’s pledge to MCAs, the Controller of Budget (CoB) is raising fundamental concerns that...

THE STANDARD By James Munyeki | February 14th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Former Nyandarua County Assembly Speaker Ndegwa Wahome ( pictured) who was known more for his legal background than politics, represented a key constituency of professionals in the agriculture-rich county. He rose to fame in 2012 when he represented Samuel Wanjiru, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Marathon gold medalist and 2011 Chicago Marathon champion, in a death threat case. He offered his legal services to Wanjiru’s widow...

THE STANDARD By James Munyeki | February 11th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Nyandarua County Assembly Speaker Ndegwa Wahome. [Boniface Okendo, Standard] Nyandarua County Assembly Speaker Ndegwa Wahome was Tuesday impeached for a second time over allegations of gross misconduct. Twenty-six ward representatives voted to remove him from office. Four MCAs voted against the impeachment motion. In December, last year, Wahome survived the first impeachment motion supported by 39 MCAs after he rushed to...

THE STANDARD KENYA Salaries and Remuneration Commission chairperson Lynn Mengich with vice-chairman Dalmas Otieno briefing on house allowance for members of parliament and senate on May 15, 2019. [David Gichuru] The Salaries and Remunerations Commission (SRC) is reluctant to make any commitment in the raging debate over the Sh4.5 billion car grants for MCAs. On Friday last week, President Uhuru Kenyatta yielded to pressure from MCAs from the Mt Kenya region and promised them a Sh2 million car g...