Kenyan politicians were accused today of plundering state coffers after awarding themselves a monthly pay rise of nearly 25%, making them some of the best-paid legislators in the world.
After resisting calls to pay income tax for years, MPs finally agreed yesterday night to pay the tax, but only after giving themselves a sweetener of 240,000 shillings (£1,960) taking their monthly pay to 1,091,000 shillings (£8,920).
The news was greeted with anger in Kenya, where the minimum wage was last month raised to £50 a month for employees in cities and £25 for farm workers. Since 2003, when President Mwai Kibaki came to power, politicians have become notorious for regularly increasing their salaries. British MPs earn £5,478 a month, while a member of France's national assembly have a monthly salary of £4,260. MORE>>>
A documentary team followed a Dublin-based Kenyan girl as she returns to visit her own Masai tribe, taking a Kerry friend along for the journey.
The first episode in a new travel series features Nai Lemoshira (20) and her college friend John O'Down who travel to Kenya to meet her family and friends. The documentary will be showing on RTE 1 on Friday 26th February 2010 from 7:30pm.
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The premise of this four-part travel series is that immigrants invite an Irish friend, family member or colleague to accompany them on a visit to their homeland. Tonight sees 20-year-old Kenyan girl Nai Lemoshira take her college classmate, Kerryman John O'Dowd, home to meet her family. Nai, who is Masai, is studying in DCU and lives with her father, an employee at the Kenyan Embassy.
The Kenyan Boys choir will be presenting in Dublin on 20th April 2010.
The event will start at 8pm and is being held at National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland.
Tickets are available at the NHC Box office, Telephone 01 417 0000, www.nch.ie and cost between €18-€35. There is no booking fee. Full details can be found here.
The choir was first "Discovered at President Obama's innaugration"
The head of an outlawed sect accused of be-headings, extortion and racketeering in Kenya has said that he is stepping down as the group's leader.
Mungiki leader, Maina Njenga was freed from prison last week, after Kenyan authorities dropped multiple murder charges against him, citing a lack of evidence.
Returning to his home after more than five years in jail, Njenga renounced violence and called on his followers to give up crime. But his departure from the Mungiki sect raises questions about the future of the group and the effect it could have on Kenya's political landscape.Here's what Maina Njenga had to say while being interviewed by Al Jazeera.
Kenyan politicians were accused today of plundering state coffers after awarding themselves a monthly pay rise of nearly 25%, making them some of the best-paid legislators in the world.
The Kenyan Boys choir will be presenting in Dublin on 20th April 2010.
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