Members of County Assemblies are now pressing for the adoption of severance pay that could see Kenyan taxpayers cough out billions of shillings to compensate them for the remaining eight months that their five-year term in office will be shortened in readiness for August polls.​

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Just days after parliamentarians made a budgetary approval of  a massive Sh2.4 billion to compensate themselves, MCAs on Monday maintained that each of their 1450 counterparts should be paid for the period that they will be legally ejected out of office for not meeting their constitutionally gazetted five-year term.On Tuesday morning, the MCAs maintained that their five-year term as enshrined in the Constitution  Article 177(4), ends in March2018, hence having the general elections in August would eventually slash their term, thus cutting their expected earnings.The MCAs drawn from the 47 counties, who are attending the Legislative summit in the coastal town of Mombasa, are piling pressure on Judiciary to clearly interpret the clause on the Constitution and give them comprehensive directions.