Kenya. MPs demand evidence of UK colonial pensioners’ existence
The National Treasury has two weeks to ascertain the actual existence of British colonial pensioners that Kenya continues to pay millions of shillings 55 years after Independence.
The National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) issued the directive after it summoned Director of Pensions Shem Nyakutu for a meeting to explain why Nairobi continues to pay people who left Kenya in 1963.
“These were colonial officers, who were retrenched through Africanisation. The Government of Kenya undertook to pay their pension through UK’s Crown Agents. Every year we pay money to the agents upfront for onward distribution to the beneficiaries,” Mr Nyakutu said, adding a statement of the payments is then sent to the Kenyan government.
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