Retired and retiring county employees can now look forward to a better life in retirement after National Treasury CS John Mbadi organised a team to recover billions of money owed to pension corporations.
The 18-member multi-agency group on Non-Remittance of Pension Deductions to Pension Schemes by County Governments aims to identify actual pension arrears and devise a strategy to resolve them.
“The object of the appointment of the taskforce is to actualise the government’s commitment to the timely remittance of pension deductions to pension schemes by county government entities,” Mbadi said in a gazette notice.
This development follows a Senate resolution to have the Treasury form a team to explore ways of clearing the arrears. This is after the Senate County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee chaired by Vihiga Senator Godfrey Osotsi probed the huge unremitted deductions.
“County governments have a problem with remittance of pension deductions. The problem is two-fold; non-remittance by defunct local authorities and non-remittance by county governments,” Osotsi said.
In the gazette notice, Mbadi appointed Budget, Fiscal and Economic Affairs at the Treasury, Albert Mwenda, as the chairman of the taskforce.
The members are Albert Kagika, director of pensions at the National Treasury, Samuel Kiptorus, head of the Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Department, and Bernice Mwangi from the Attorney General’s office.
Others include Theodora Ochichi from the Office of the Controller of Budget, David Kitetu from the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee, and Moses Waitara from the Local Authorities Provident Fund.
