肯尼亚总统宣布减薪 减少财政压力Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced that he and his cabinet will take a pay cut to help bring down the government's wage bill.肯尼亚总统乌虎鲁·肯雅塔宣布他本人以及内阁成员将减薪以减少政府的财政压力。President Kenyatta says the government wage bill is "unsustainable" President Kenyatta said that he and his deputy William Ruto would take a 20% cut while other ministers would have their pay reduced by 10%. Foreign trips, he said, would be kept to a minimum. Mr Kenyatta also urged Kenyan MPs, who are among the highest paid in Africa, to accept cuts. Correspondents say the issue of politicians' pay is a highly sensitive issue in Kenya. Mr Kenyatta said the government was spending close to $4.6bn in salaries, leaving only $2.3bn for development. "We need to deal with this monster if we are to develop this nation otherwise sooner or later we will become a nation that only collects taxes to pay ourselves," President Kenyatta said. He was speaking at the end of a cabinet retreat near Mount Kenya that was reviewing progress made one year since he was elected. M r Kenyatta announced a month after his election that he would make reducing Kenya's ballooning public sector wage bill a priority. He said it was "unsustainable" and weighed on the national budget.
