MP Samuel Arama: Teachers were given Ksh10K each in State House
By Mabonga Makhanu, September 16, 2025Nakuru West MP Samuel Arama has stated that teachers were reimbursed with Ksh10,000 after visiting State House on Saturday, September 13, 2025.
While speaking during an interview with a Nakuru-based YouTuber on Monday, September 16, 2025, the legislator defended the move by State House to reimburse the money used by teachers to attend, saying that it was just a good gesture extended by President William Ruto to the attendees.
He went further to slam those linking the reimbursement of Ksh10,000 to teachers as an act of corruption, saying that instead of the president going deep into his pockets by moving around the 47 counties talking to teachers from every county, he decided to call them to State House and hold meetings with them so as to save on expenses, then afterwards give each teacher who had attended a facilitation fee.
He went ahead to state that the money used by the Head of State was drawn from the budgetary allocation to State House meant for the President’s travelling expenditure, which is allocated to him by Parliament.
“It emanates from the State House budget; the President has travelling expenditures; he is supposed to travel to every county. When will it be cheaper, going to each county or inviting the teachers to the State House and reimbursing the? The money was from his travelling expenditure.”
Defending Ruto
He went on to state that the practice of giving money to people after they visited the State House has been in place for a long time. According to Arama, the act has persisted for a considerable period, and even past Heads of State have issued money to those who visited them.
“That is what has been happening. When you call people from different places to the State House, you must give them a facilitation fee; there is no problem. “It was happening when Kalonzo was the vice president; it used to occur when Gachagua was deputy president; he used to do it,” Arama said.
Arama, who in the past was captured also issuing Ksh10,000 to a delegation from Nakuru after visiting State House, telling them that the money was given to him by the President to spread amongst them, has defended himself from this, saying that there was no problem with the President doing so since it is a norm for every politician to do so to any person visiting him, adding that even the former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, while still in office, used to give a facilitation fee to anybody who visited him.
These came days after a delegation of teachers drawn from different unions within the teaching fraternity who visited the Statehouse saw them bag different goodies ranging from a review of their medical insurance scheme to signing a memorandum of understanding with the president to have 20 cent of affordable housing programme go to them