Push by MPs for fat pension fails again

Parliament in session during the reading of Budget 2020/21 at the Parliament building, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina,Standard]

MPs yesterday failed in their second bid to force through a Sh100,000 a month pension for former colleagues.

They could not to raise the two-thirds majority required to overturn President Uhuru Kenyatta’s memorandum rejecting the Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Bill, 2019 that aimed to enhance pensions for former MPs.