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    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "Instead, it gives them the mandate to superintend over issues to do with salaries and renumeration. One of the cardinal rules in our Constitution today is the issue of public participation. When you are superintending over colleagues, you create problems. For instance, our colleague, the Leader of the Majority Party, has just been elevated by virtue of the position he holds in order to help coordinate us into an organised sitting. That does not mean that his role will now be to cause injuries to other Members. That is what the SRC is doing to other commissions. While making law for public consumption, we look at the issue of public participation. When it comes to inter-commission relations, the principle of consultation should apply. When the SRC does not consult equivalent commissions, then they go beyond the powers bestowed upon them by the Constitution. The proposals contained in these Regulations have gone far beyond the SRC’s mandate. It is, therefore, important that the Committee uses its eagle’s eye to see what has gone wrong and seek redress. Therefore, we should completely reject and annul these Regulations. This action will serve as a lesson to other public bodies that may want to overstep their mandates when dealing with other public institutions. Hon. Temporary Speaker, at times the SRC would want to have a look at other commissions and make decisions behind the scenes. More often, immediately Parliament is adjourned sine die, the SRC sits and decides on what happens with the next Parliament. Kenya is a signatory to various treaties, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) being one of them. What does the ILO say about the salary of someone who has been in the same organisation and doing the same job? A Member who comes to Parliament to serve a second term is not a new employee. He has been an employee of the Parliamentary Service Commission. Why are we now changing the salary and the terms of engagement of such Member? What has changed? Does it mean that when you upgrade and get a second term you cease to be a normal Member or you upgrade and become a lesser Member? Are you motivating first term Members to advance and become second term Members? The SRC looks at issues from one angle, but on another angle, someone who has a bit of experience should earn more. What changes when it comes to a Member of Parliament? What changes such that the Member is now looked down upon? The issue of double speak by the SRC makes us feel that it is not a good organisation that will help Kenyans to move forward. The ILO Treaty says that you cannot pay a worker less the amount he is earning today in a future engagement for the same job. Therefore, this puts us in an awkward position. The SRC is established under Chapter 15 with independence to decide and not to politic or be part of the political sphere. If they want to politic, let them join politics and then we can move forward. For now, let them behave like other commissions. Independent commissions are very independent and they move independently. I salute my good friend, Hon. Chepkonga and his Committee. You have done us proud. For any other issue coming here in the same manner, we shall stand together and make sure that this country moves forward as one, and the rule of law shall always prevail. With those remarks, I support the Committee’s Report."
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