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Broke Kenyan Parliament now summons Treasury chief

National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi

NAIROBI: Parliament has been hit by a serious cash crunch, to an extent that expenses and other allowances for the 349 MPs are not being processed. MPs are unable to pay their constituency staff and they are already complaining of being broke, just five days after they were paid.

So grim is the situation that Kenya Power (KP) disconnected power at the main Parliament Buildings on Friday over contested bills and electricity was restored Monday afternoon after high-level intervention.

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