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    "id": 1222349,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mavoko, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Makau",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand guided. I agree with this Report that we annul these Draft Regulations. The SRC has elevated itself to a status of a prefect of all commissions and civil servants in the country. The Chair has put clearly the mandate of the SRC. However, the SRC has gone beyond that. It cannot define what a benefit is and what a salary is. It is sad when a commission set up to facilitate its members gives them benefits, then the SRC comes in without consulting, purporting to be a prefect of that commission, and goes ahead to issue directives on how employers should pay their employees. The House has powers to legislate. I have been advocating that we maintain the dignity of this House. If we joke, such busybodies will be issuing regulations and legislate from their benches and boardrooms. I congratulate the Chairman and the Committee for sitting down for long hours, because I can tell from the volume of this Report. When you look at the Regulations that are being established without the authority of this House, they are so many yet they are being made effective. It is high time this House rose and claimed its position in terms of legislation. Yes, I agree there was no public participation. This has been ongoing. The SRC has been punishing other commissions of the same standing, the counties and even the national Government. Without much ado, because I can see time is not with us and I know Members are willing to contribute to the same, I support the Report. Let us nullify all these Regulations and let the SRC come to their senses, include everybody, do public participations, so that we can express our wishes on how we want to treat our employees. For example, we have proposals as a Commission that if a member has been serving for one, two, three or four terms, that is if a Member is lucky to come back here, they should not be earning the same as a new Member. If those are the plans of the Parliamentary Service Commission, then nobody else should pretend that they can advise better than that."
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