South African MP envies Kenyan MPs’ many perks

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February 9, 2020
7:31 pm

Nqabayomzi Kwankwa found it unusual for Kenyan MPs to have a driver, bodyguard, PA and a communication officer.

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A South African MP has lamented that Kenyan MPs appear to have better perks than those in his country.

Nqabayomzi Kwankwa, who is in Kenya for a consultative meeting with East African MPs, said it made him realise that he was an MP in the wrong country.

In a tweet, he said that Kenyan MPs had the use of a driver, a bodyguard, a personal assistant and a communication officer while in South Africa they had to fend for themselves.

Mr Kwankwa shared a photo of himself with Senator Isaac Mwaura:

Spending a day with Hon. Dr Mwaura today in Nairobi, I realized that I am an MP for a wrong country. 😜 MPs here have a driver, a body guard, a PA, a researcher, a communications officer & an admin assistant. @BantuHolomisa. In SA, we fend for ourselves. We don’t even have PAs. pic.twitter.com/7dQYwFK8GX
— Nqabayomzi Kwankwa, MP (@N_Kwankwa) February 6, 2020

Kenyan legislators are the second-highest paid in the world, after Nigeria, according to a study by the UK-based Independent Parliamentary Standard Authority and the International Monetary Fund in 2019.

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