President Uhuru Kenyatta decides to introduce "salary cut"

By Machel Waikenda

President Uhuru Kenyatta has initiated critical national debate to address spending in government. The President has led the Executive in taking a pay cut to reduce the country’s wage bill burden when executed all over government. Uhuru knows there is a problem. He has personally said so and even offered a way out. As Chief Executive Officer of the Republic of Kenya, he is rightly concerned since, to borrow a line from renowned playwright William Shakespeare’s Henry the IV, “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown”.