They served Kenyan communities faithfully from the dawn of independence in 1963 right up to the 2010 Constitution’s devolution era, handling grassroots responsibilities with the same weight as today’s MPs and MCAs—yet many now face a heartbreaking reality: abject poverty, untreated illnesses, and premature deaths, all while waiting for promised pensions that never arrived.
In a desperate and emotional plea, surviving former councillors are turning directly to President William Ruto, begging for his personal intervention to deliver the respectable pension they say is long overdue. They argue that while elected officials at higher levels enjoy prompt retirement benefits, these veteran civic leaders—who earned modest allowances of just Sh7,000 to Sh13,000 monthly—have been systematically neglected by successive governments.
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