The average monthly sitting allowance paid to a Member of the County Assembly (MCA) in the nine months to March rose to Sh80,177, the highest in three years.
Data from the Controller of Budget (CoB) shows that each of the 2,242 MCAs took home Sh80,177 on average a month for attending assembly meetings, the highest since the financial year ending June 2017 when they earned Sh84,875.