Top news items in major Kenyan media outlets

The following are news in Kenyan media outlets on Wednesday:

-- Kenyan MPs have set in motion a plan to get them paid an estimated 36 million U.S. dollars for the eight months. Their five-year term will be cut when the general election is held on August 8. At a Budget committee meeting with the Treasury and the salaries commission on Tuesday, the MPs insisted they must be given "severance pay" in lieu of the months they feel entitled to. Legislators now earn an average of 10,576 dollars a month and the country has a total of 349 of them. (Daily Nation)

-- A week to the end of voter registration, only 2.1 million voters have listed against a target of 6.1 million. Perceived ruling party Jubilee strongholds have recorded higher returns compared to their competitors in the Opposition. (The Standard)

-- Central Bank of Kenya gives six banks the green light to launch a mobile money transfer platform, heralding a new dawn in the highly competitive and lucrative financial services market segment. (Business Daily)

-- Opposition's National Super Alliance (NASA) says it will work within the Constitution as its leaders work out a formula to share positions if they win elections. There has been suggestions that it will create positions of Prime Minister and two deputies to share power and appease its leaders. (The Star)

-- Religious leaders want the government to declare the ongoing drought a national disaster to beckon the international community to step forward and support Kenyans suffering from the predicament. (People Daily) Endit