{"id":10542,"date":"2023-04-12T07:32:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T07:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2023-04-12T07:32:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T07:32:21","slug":"kenyas-former-first-lady-mama-ngina-kenyattas-monthly-salary-increased-by-sh111k-to-sh679800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=10542","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s former first Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta&#8217;s monthly salary increased by Sh111k to Sh679,800."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former First Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta\u2019s State pension has been increased by Ksh 111k to Sh679,800 monthly amid renewed scrutiny over her family\u2019s multibillion-shilling wealth.Mama Ngina\u2019s pension was raised from Sh568,218 that she earned in 2018 at taxpayers\u2019 expense for being the spouse of Kenya\u2019s first president, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, who died in 1978,The former First Lady\u2019s State payment is tied to the law that provides for a spouse of a sitting or a retired president to be paid 40 percent of the current salary paid to the sitting Head of State should their husband die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FB_IMG_1681284569305-1-1024x528.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FB_IMG_1681284569305-1-1024x528.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FB_IMG_1681284569305-1-980x505.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FB_IMG_1681284569305-1-480x248.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former First Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta\u2019s State pension has been increased by Ksh 111k to Sh679,800 monthly amid renewed scrutiny over her family\u2019s multibillion-shilling wealth.Mama Ngina\u2019s pension was raised from Sh568,218 that she earned in 2018 at taxpayers\u2019 expense for being the spouse of Kenya\u2019s first president, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, who died in 1978,The former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FB_IMG_1681284569305.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10545,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions\/10545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}