Inside Former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga’s Plans to Mint Millions From Tax Payers

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Are Kenya’s top State officials entitled to a lot of privileges and perks?

For sometime now, Kenyans have complained of the huge wage bill that they have to bear due to the large sums of money that end up in the arms of senior government officials and state officers.

Even state officers that are already retired still withdraw some pretty good cash from the Government.

The latest to join the calls for a better retirement perks are two former speakers and retired Chief Justice Willy Mutunga.

The trio are locked in a standoff with Treasury officials over their demands for lavish retirement perks that include a bulletproof fuel guzzler, backdated retirement benefits and a higher pension pay scale.

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Former National Assembly Speaker Francis ole Kaparo has demanded, among his other generous pension benefits, an armoured four-wheel-drive 3000cc engine vehicle bought and fuelled by taxpayers.

Senate Speaker Ekwee Ethuro and retired Chief Justice Willy Mutunga are also demanding additional millions in retirement benefits, arguing that the Treasury used wrong figures to calculate their exit packages and monthly pension payments.

After leaving office, Dr Mutunga publicly declared that he was worth Sh80 million, adding that he earned a net salary of Sh50 million in the five years he served as CJ.

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The two want the Pensions Department to base their pension pay outs on their last gross salaries, estimated at about Sh2 million, and not the lower figures quoted by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC), which places the Speakers’ basic salary at Sh693,000 and that of the former Chief Justice at Sh796,732.

If implemented, the higher pay scale will offer Mr Ethuro and Dr Mutunga Sh1.6 million in monthly pension, lump sum payoffs of Sh24 million each and monthly fuel perks of Sh300,000 each.

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