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    "id": 1222310,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ainabkoi, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samwel Chepkonga",
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    "content": "to subject other legislations to the SRC Regulations thereby overstepping its mandate or veering into the mandate of other bodies. In these Draft Regulations, for instance, the SRC has defined a “benefit” to be a gain of a financial and non-financial nature. Looking at the Constitution, the mandate of SRC as provided for under Article 230(4) is as follows: “(a) set and regularly review remuneration and benefits of all State officers; and, (b) advise the national and county governments on the remuneration and benefits of all other public officers.” Hon. Temporary Speaker, the SRC is called upon to do something that is of financial nature, and not that which is of non-financial nature as defined in these Draft Regulations. The reason why they have done this is that they have veered into even the Parliamentary Service Commission itself thus infringing Article 127 of the Constitution, which provides that the Parliamentary Service Commission shall provide facilities and services to Members of Parliament. The SRC even purport to have powers to set mileage claims limits for Members - how much should be paid to every Member here. The mileage payment is a refund of the expenses we incur in travelling to our constituencies. That is neither a remuneration nor a benefit. It is just a payment that restores a Member’s financial position to where it was before incurring travel expenses from Nairobi to the constituencies and back to Parliament. The SRC now purports to include this non-financial benefit of travelling upcountry and coming back to Parliament."
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