It is now emerging that Kenya's diplomats have gone six months without pay.
Nairobi Leo has learnt that the ambassadors were last paid in September 2022 when Former President Uhuru Kenyatta was exiting the office.
Some of the foreign diplomats who spoke to Nairobi Leo revealed confirmed the allegations.
"The CS actually even confirmed to the MPs. Do you want to say you are doubting him? We were last paid by Former President Uhuru's government. To speak for myself and my colleagues, we were last paid in September," a diplomat who sought anonymity told Nairobi Leo.
Foreign Affairs CS Alfred Mutua when reached by this writer to verify the claim did not deny that there were salary delays.
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He, however, claimed that all diplomats have been despite some of those whom we spoke to denying it.
"We do not have a single pending payment. If there is, please get me specifics and I will follow up to find out why it is not yet done," Mutua said.
Chair of the National Assembly Committee on Defence Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Nelson Koech on Thursday said life has become unbearable for several Kenyan attachés in Belgium and Germany.
CS Mutua had appeared before the Assembly committee when the MP raised the concern.
“Our attaches have not been paid for the past 6 months. Some of them have been threatened with eviction,” the MP said.
Mutua, however, said the government was experiencing a cash crunch owing to ballooning debts facing the current regime.
He at the same time said diplomats are paid by different departments which could have caused the mess.
"So let’s say you’re posted in Japan. Huyu ni wa Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Amelipwa na Ministry of Foreign affairs, lakini wa Interior hajalipwa yake," he said.
"Now that is what I am trying to change. I am saying, let all the monies be brought to the Ministry of foreign affairs and let us pay.”
