Saturday February 2, 2013 - Kenyan taxpayers have been paying almost a million shillings in rent for the residence of Kenya’s permanent representative to the United Nation, Macharia Kamau, a parliamentary report has said.
The committee said Macharia Kamau is “arrogant” and he declined to stay in the Mission’s official residence and decided to rent an apartment in New York, which is costing taxpayers US $9,835 (Sh855,645) a month.
“Since the residence was built to the standards of a Presidential suite and is in a good location, there was no justification as to why such a huge residential building could be abandoned by the permanent representative. At least he would have occupied part of the building awaiting renovations.” Adan Keynan,the chairman of the parliamentary committee said.
Keynan said that the committee was convinced that Kamau’s ego may have driven him to rent such an expensive apartment and accused him of not having the “passion” to protect waste of public funds.
But Kamau denied the claims and insisted that his decision to stay in a flat near the UN was because of logistical complications of living far away in the Bronx, where the official residence is currently located.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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