{"id":242320,"date":"2026-08-27T07:02:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mps-question-sh342-8mn-ira-payment-to-law-firm-over-legal-fees-dispute\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:02:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:02:59","slug":"kenya-mps-question-sh342-8mn-ira-payment-to-law-firm-over-legal-fees-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mps-question-sh342-8mn-ira-payment-to-law-firm-over-legal-fees-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: MPs Question Sh342.8mn Ira Payment to Law Firm Over Legal Fees Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 Lawmakers have raised questions over the Insurance Regulatory Authority&#8217;s (IRA) payment of Sh342.8 million to a law firm following a protracted dispute over legal fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The payment came under scrutiny on Wednesday when the Public Investments Committee on Commercial Affairs and Energy questioned how the law firm was allowed to represent the regulator in court before a final agreement on its fees had been reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The committee, chaired by Pokot South MP David Pkosing, also raised&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608270026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Lawmakers have raised questions over the Insurance Regulatory Authority&#8217;s (IRA) payment of Sh342.8 million to a law firm following a protracted dispute over legal fees. The payment came under scrutiny on Wednesday when the Public Investments Committee on Commercial Affairs and Energy questioned how the law firm was allowed to represent the regulator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":242321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,9424,11432,7559,49289,4688,430,7077,6393,7260,257,10122,9301,55285,254],"class_list":["post-242320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dispute","tag-fees","tag-firm","tag-ira","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-law","tag-legal","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-payment","tag-question","tag-sh342-8mn","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}