{"id":17286,"date":"2025-03-06T12:33:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17286"},"modified":"2025-03-06T12:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:33:40","slug":"senator-kathuri-murungi-payment-for-former-councillors-delayed-due-to-lack-of-legal-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17286","title":{"rendered":"Senator Kathuri Murungi: Payment for Former Councillors Delayed Due to Lack of Legal Framework."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ilIZOp4ukLy3Hd6DUbFyoOtFlxJFYUjfeGMRSl3S.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ilIZOp4ukLy3Hd6DUbFyoOtFlxJFYUjfeGMRSl3S.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ilIZOp4ukLy3Hd6DUbFyoOtFlxJFYUjfeGMRSl3S-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meru County Senator <strong>Kathuri Murungi<\/strong> has stated that <strong>payments for former councillors have not been made<\/strong> due to <strong>the absence of a legal framework to facilitate the disbursement<\/strong>, as explained by Treasury Cabinet Secretary <strong>John Mbadi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/muguka-e1716713785258.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/muguka-e1716713785258.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/muguka-e1716713785258-480x268.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 720px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Senator Murungi expressed <strong>optimism that the issue will be resolved<\/strong>, following <strong>guidance from the Senate Speaker<\/strong>, who has directed <strong>relevant committees to convene and address the matter<\/strong> to ensure the payments are processed accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meru County Senator Kathuri Murungi has stated that payments for former councillors have not been made due to the absence of a legal framework to facilitate the disbursement, as explained by Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi. However, Senator Murungi expressed optimism that the issue will be resolved, following guidance from the Senate Speaker, who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17288,"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":[12,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/muguka-e1716713785258.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17286","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17289,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17286\/revisions\/17289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}