By Nancy Kijana

Migori County Assembly has refuted reports which appeared in some National Newspapers last week that its workers are claiming salary arrears for over five months.

Speaking to the press today at his office, the Clerk to the Assembly Mr. Patrick Wakine said that the Assembly does not have any employees at the Ward level, adding that if any is claiming to have a contract with the Assembly should come forth and produce even a pay slip to that effect.

Mr. Wakine said that even though there are people working in MCAs ward offices in a bid to devolve operations to the wards, they are not employees of the County Assembly of Migori in the 2014/2015 financial year, but those claiming to be Assembly employees were contracted by the MCA’s themselves who know how many they are and how much they earn.

‘Migori County Assembly has 71 employees only who work within the premises and nobody should claim to be our employee from elsewhere’, the Clerk added.

The MCAs were allowed to rent offices in their various wards to assist members of the Public in service delivery as we are still in the process of building modern MCA ward offices in our 40 wards.

‘But we normally give impress to Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) for the ward operations and we do not even know who they engaged to help them run those ward offices, the Clerk added.”

At the same time the Speaker to the Assembly Hon. Gordon Ogola refuted claims that he calmed a rioting crowd of ward employees saying that he has never encountered any demonstrators who were demanding their pay at the Assembly precincts on the said dates.