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Public universities will not get money from the state to run undergraduate programmes if court orders last year freezing fees increase is not lifted.

For 26 months, taxpayers paid Sh104 million each month to MPs illegally.

MCAs are pressing on with a push to be paid about Sh8 billion which they claim was as a result of reduction of their terms ahead of the 2017 General Election.

THE STANDARD By Kamau Muthoni | January 8th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Parliament in session at the Parliament buildings, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] Members of Parliament will end their term owing Kenyans more than a billion shillings if the High Court orders on illegal allowances are suspended, Attorney General Kihara Kariuki told the court yesterday. The AG, in his objection to MPs’ plea that they be allowed to continue earning allowances which had been declared illegal by the High Court, said it would be unfair to the taxpayers to pay billions of shillings, which they have no gua...

THE STANDARD POLITICS MPs keep social distance during a National Assembly Special Sitting as they discussed the country's battle with Covid-19. [Boniface Okendo, Standard] MPs must refund more than Sh2.7 billion they illegally allocated themselves for house allowance. The High Court has ordered the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) to recover the money in one year. Justices Pauline Nyamweya, Weldon Korir and John Mativo yesterday found that the commission had no powers to allocate Sh250,000 monthly to every MP and backdate it to 2018 without the authority of the Salaries and Remuneratio...