A new set of regulations recently adopted by MPs could be misused to redirect housing levy funds to other projects outside the Affordable Housing programme, it has now emerged.
Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu-Kenya) Secretary General Francis Atwoli on Tuesday, June 3, warned that the new regulations could potentially introduce a loophole that could see lawmakers channel the funds into projects that could compromise the affordable housing plan.
Atwoli noted that the regulations that were adopted by MPs but had not yet been ratified by the Attorney General, could potentially subject the housing levy to misuses. "Under the Affordable Housing Regulations, housing levy funds may now, erroneously, be used to construct health facilities, pre-primary education centres, basic education centres, fire stations, police posts, social halls, markets, and open spaces, under the guise of 'associated social infrastructure," reads Atwoli's statement.
President William Ruto during the handover ceremony of 1,080 completed homes at the Mukuru Meteorological Site in Nairobi County PCS "While these are all important public services, they fall well outside the scope of what Kenyan workers were promised when this levy was introduced," it added.
