Kenya’s foreign missions are facing a financial crisis. New revelations show that attachés at some foreign missions have gone for up to six months without receiving their salaries.

This comes as a salary crisis and delays that has been reported in Kenya spreads to the country’s foreign missions.

According to Nelson Koech, the Chair of the National Assembly Committee on Defense Intelligence and Foreign Affairs, Kenyan attachés in Germany and Belgium have now gone for six months without pay.

Several of these attachés are currently facing eviction from their residences after falling into financial crisis due to the delayed salaries.

“Our attaches have not been paid for the past 6 months. Some of them have been threatened with eviction,” Koech said.

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Koech added that one of Kenya’s ambassadors has already been evicted.

“We have seen his (ambassador) video clip circulating. He has gone into alcohol as a result. It is very important that we look into this,” he said.

These delays have been acknowledged by the cabinet secretary for foreign affairs Alfred Mutua. However, Mutua has blamed the delayed payment of  salaries on huge debts that were taken by President Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime.

He further blamed the delayed salary payments on bureaucracy, saying that the attachés are paid from different departments such as the Ministry Of Interior.

“So let’s say you’re posted in Japan. Huyu ni wa Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Amelipwa na Ministry of Foreign affairs, lakini wa Interior hajalipwa yake. Now that is what I am trying to change. I am saying, let all the monies be brought to the Ministry of foreign affairs and let us pay,” said Mutua.