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Issack Hassan’s IEBC team exits with Sh315m pay perk

From left: Outgoing IEBC commissioners Abdullahi Sharawe, Yusuf Nzibo and chairman Issack Hassan before a parliamentary committee. PHOTO | FILE

The nine outgoing Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) bosses bargained for a Sh315.4 million send-off package, representing the huge cost to taxpayers of ejecting them ahead of their November 2017 retirement date.

The severance pay, which is to be drawn from the Consolidated Fund, has the effect of inflating the commissioners’ total earnings in the 2016/17 fiscal year from the initial estimate of Sh132.8 million to Sh448.2 million, according to Supplementary Budget estimates tabled in Parliament. The

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