Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:45:41 -0800 [12:45:41 PM CST]
From: Judy Miriga
Subject: Kivuitu team to get send off package

Folks,

Malipo ni hapa hapa, Mungu si Athmani, atawaona……….

Blessed are the poor and those persecuted….the hand of God is not far.

It will pay back all that the locusts have eated. Take heart……

Thanks,

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson.
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Kivuitu team to get send off package

[Former commissioners of the disbanded Electoral Commission of Kenya]

Former commissioners of the disbanded Electoral Commission of Kenya in a file picture. The Cabinet has approved a termination package for them. Photo/FILE
By ANTHONY KARIUKI and PPSPosted Tuesday, February 17 2009 at 17:53

In Summary

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Cabinet approves termination deal that was recommended by a task force report on the dissolution of the ECK.

The package will cost the Kenyan taxpayer around Sh400 million.

Other staff to be redeployed to various ministries.

Former employees who will not be absorbed will receive a golden handshake of Sh170,000.

Former commissioners of the disbanded Electoral Commission of Kenya will finally get their send off package.

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a termination deal that was recommended by a task force report on the dissolution of the ECK.

The 22 commissioners will get a payment that equals their three month?s salary.

They will also be entitled to: Service gratuity of 31% of basic salary for the period served, one month salary in lieu of notice and an unutilised leave to be commuted for cash.

The package will cost the Kenyan taxpayer around Sh400 million.

The electoral body was disbanded by Parliament last year after MPs passed the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill 2008, which was then signed into law by President Kibaki.

The then ECK, under the chairmanship of Samuel Kivuitu, was accused of mismanaging the 2007 General Election that sparked violence protests after the opposition said that the government had rigged the polls.

As a result, 1,133 people were killed in the violence and 350,000 others displaced.

The Cabinet also agreed to the re-deployment of other staff to various ministries through the ministry of Public Service as recommended by the task-force.

Those who will not be absorbed will receive a golden handshake of Sh170,000.

Other benefits will include: One month salary in lieu of notice, a severance pay of one month basic salary for each year worked, an unutilised leave to be commuted for cash up to the maximum days allowed under each staff category and the payment of pension dues under the terms and regulation of the ECK pension scheme or any other private pension scheme.

Cabinet also reviewed the food situation in the country and requested the Finance minister to prepare a detailed program and schedule on targeted food subsidies for consideration at the next cabinet meeting.

Parliament will then debate and approve the subsidies.

The meeting also decided to hold consultations with the Parliamentary Committee on Budget to resolve issues which made it difficult for the President to give assent to the Fiscal Management Bill 2008.

After consultations with Parliament, the Cabinet will then table an Organic Budget Bill that will have been harmonised with the Fiscal Management Bill which parliament had earlier passed.

The Bill was meant to give MPs more say on the budget-making process.

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Submitted by joemuirurithige
Posted February 17, 2009 08:26 PM

hawa watu wamefanya kazi yao. talk about being subjective, these people did even more than Kofi Anaan. bad governance is better than no governance, look at somalia. wakenya tuvulie hawa watu kofia jameni.

Submitted by nani_ngombe
Posted February 17, 2009 08:12 PM

You bungle an election, you get a send off package. Phew!

Submitted by OumaDuncan
Posted February 17, 2009 08:05 PM

Go for good Mr. Kivitu, its bad that you have lost all the respect you earned while you served. That money is even still too much, the money belongs to the same Kenyans you lost their lives, relatives and property coz of you.

Submitted by yesuwangu
Posted February 17, 2009 07:07 PM

kweli pesa Iko for them politicians inly!! but for citizens they ar always told their is no money! Labour day they said shillingi za koungeza hakuna! during a rally in Nairobi they said pesa tunayo suddenly prezo said hakuna pesa! even for the sick or starving.but for compensations,Mp salary,weapons,somali pirates their is money.!surely they are worse than colonilialist

Submitted by swala nyeti
Posted February 17, 2009 06:30 PM

There seems to be a definite figure tagged on the victims of the PEV. This is 1,133 for the dead and 350,000 for the displaced. Can we kindly match these figures to the individuals since we have the definite figures. Au vipi?

Submitted by Kapere24
Posted February 17, 2009 06:22 PM

I dont think Kivuitu and his team should cost the country 400M… Our legislatures pass bills favoring them directly or indirectly which is not a good show. People are dieing of hunger, whats the government doing about it, is probing Ruto solution to famine in the country… Kiviuti and all these people had already made fortunes, LETS FEED THE NATION TOO!