Treasury To Set Up Gym, Spa For Employees With These Features

The Treasury also revealed that the premises will be a welfare facility and will be free of charge.

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Mar 27, 2023 - 05:50 Updated: Feb 6, 2024 - 22:42
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Treasury To Set Up Gym, Spa For Employees With These Features
Picture of a gym. /TOTAL SHAPE

The National Treasury has set up a gym for its staff and is searching for an operator for its new upscale and members-only facility in a bid to help the employees keep fit and improve bonding and team building.

The facility, which also features a massage parlour, is located within Bima House, Nairobi, and is equipped with modern training equipment and can accommodate 250-300 users daily at different intervals.

The Treasury also revealed that the premises will be a welfare facility and will be free of charge.

Entrance to the National Treasury offices in Nairobi. /DAILY NATION

“The Health Club is fully equipped with modern equipment for training and is intended to operate daily between Monday and Friday from 5.00 am to 9.00 pm and from 8.00 am to 3.00 pm over the weekends and public holidays or as will be agreed,” the Treasury stated.

The Treasury added that the gym operator will be required to offer services including training on physical fitness, aerobic and anaerobic exercises, self-defence, physiotherapy, massage, and relaxotheloply (sports purposes) as well as nutritional training.

The gym will also have a steam bath and sauna, first-aid awareness lessons, field, and outside training, team building and bonding, and boot camps.

“The proposed service provider will be a competent professional firm club or a consortium of professional experts in physical training, registered locally with the Ministry of Sports and Youth or any other recognised national regional or international sports body, who will provide the aforestated training” the Treasury added.

It was however not established by the time of publication how much the Treasury would spend on the new facility.

The planned opening of the posh gym and relaxation and wellness centre comes in the middle of a severe austerity drive by the Kenya Kwanza government spearheaded by the Treasury itself, seeking to cut Ksh300 billion from the national budget.

President William Ruto, in his speech, while opening the 13th Parliament on September 29, 2022, instructed the Treasury to cut down former President Uhuru Kenyatta's last budget by Ksh300 billion, specifically reducing expenditure on unnecessary items that were budgeted for.

"Over the next three years, we must go back to the situation where the government contributes to the national saving scheme.

"To this end, I have instructed the Treasury to work with ministries to find at least Ksh300 billion in this year's budget because the market cannot sustain the kind of borrowing we are doing as a government," he said.

Specifically, Uhuru's last budget read by former Treasury CS Ukur Yatani before the 2022 elections were projected at Ksh3.3 trillion.

However, several State agencies to date are still engaging in non-essential spending on such goods and services as the provision of cut flowers and lunches, against the President's directive through the National Treasury.

Hoteliers, traders in goods like stationery, consultants and civil servants were expected to be among the hardest hit by the planned austerity measures.

Cabinet Secretary Prof Njug'una Ndung'u in a memorandum to all heads of departments dated November 7, 2022, consequently asked them to do away with emoluments often accrued by workers in their line of duty.

President William Ruto giving his speech in Parliament on September 29, 2022. /WILLIAM RUTO

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