Empowering Government employees is one of the key pillars of good Governance and Accountability.
In some countries like Kenya, Government employees earn enough money to use for their normal family daily lives, to help them concentrate on serving citizens.
A normal Kenyan MP salary is estimated to be Ksh 532,500 (roughly $4200) per month, which is taxable, according to the Parliament of Kenya. This translates to Ksh 6,390,000 ($47000) annually. They also receive allowances, including a house allowance, which can vary.
In Kenya, a Member of the County Assembly (MCA) earns a gross monthly salary of KES 154,481, which includes a basic salary and allowances, according to AfroCave. This package is for the financial years 2023/2024 and 2024/2025. The basic salary is KES 92,689, and there’s a house allowance of KES 50,000 in addition to an official commuter allowance, says AfroCave. However, after deductions, the take-home pay for an MCA often falls between KES 80,000 and KES 90,000.
Compared to the figures above, one can realize the differences in salary scale of the different countries when it comes employee’s salaries andwelfare. A part from the salary, government employees in some countries have a full and comprehensive medical cover that also covers family and close relatives. Such medical covers, help in both out and in patients for all Government staff as long as they serve their people.
There are other medical cover for ease the medical bills for both Civilians and government employees for sustainable development.
Countries like Somalia, an MP earns about $5000 us Dollars monthly and has other allowances to facilitate them serve the citizens. When one compares and contrasts, the scale ddifferences between salaries of Ehtiopian Government employees and that of other countries really differs hugely, this makes staff unable to solve their personal and family needs, which encourages
Government employees Resort to stealing projects and other development budget to sustain themselves and their loved ones. This is why it is really important to scale up the salary of government employees, so that Accountability agencies like Ethics and anti corruption agencies can vividly deal with individuals who may continue stealing government money, after earning enough salaries.
This is empowering the general community, as everyone who leaves the Government employment can start personal and family business independently, as this slowly and gradually allows citizens’ financial freedom.
Poor employees working conditions and less pay cheque of the staff leads to recycled poverty as this doesn’t help self sustaining current employees after loosing power or leaving the job to join the business society and become financially independent.
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