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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 accounts of MCAs. “On the issue of ‘car grant,’ since it is payable to the said employees in form of...

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 in the Ksh 2 billion Nairobi County budget proposal with Ksh 1.4 billion going to recurrent expendit...

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 Speaker's 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 allied to impeached Speaker Ndegwa Wahome and Governor Francis Kimemia. MCAs allied to Wahome did not t...

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 President is not included in the budget line,” reads the statement. The statement quotes Raila a...