Thursday, May 29, 2008

A retirement benefits package

to dream of:

Why Mkapa didn’t have

to do business at Ikulu:


THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam



FORMER President Benjamin Mkapa (photo above) is already guaranteed a comfortable life after retirement, courtesy of taxpayers’ money, according to legislation that he himself assented to while at State House.

The current Political Service Retirement Benefits Act, passed by the National Assembly in 2000, spells out a generous package of retirement perks for the former president, including an annual pension granted monthly of a sum equal to 80 per cent of the salary of incumbent President Jakaya Kikwete.


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