KK Online reveals the pain of the messagers who are also known as correspondents working for government owned station Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). The correspondents who are about 50 in number have endured for five months without a single penny.
Several of the Correspondents who found a shoulder to lean on has told KK online News that they have been filling claim forms every month but even after doing so, nothing in terms of payments seems to come their way. We have learnt that the budget for the said correspondents is about 800,000 every month. Unfortunately, it is said that bosses in the financial department have been using that money to enrich themselves whereby they choose to invest on personal assets at the expense of the poor correspondents who do the donkey work for KBC because the state corporation relies on 80% news from regional correspondents. "We have become a laughingstock in the Community because of our bosses have reduced us to beggars", a correspondent said.
According to our investigations one of the senior officers in the finance department has acquired an expansive plot that is under construction in Nairobi. " This is the main guy responsible for paying us, I hope they are not using our hard earned sweat to enrich themselves," another correspondent said disclosing that sometimes ago he was forced to exchange his Wardrobe Cardboard to get Ksh 5000 for food.
Some of the correspondents are said to have been thrown out of their houses together with their families as others has to become boot-lickers to politicians so as to get 'economy' as they usualy call it, for their upkeep.
They are now calling the Government to intervene for them to get their dues for 5 months.
