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    "content": "are salaries that were proposed by the Permanent Public Service Remuneration Review Board. It took them more than two-and-a-half years to come up with these salaries and in the course of it, I know as a fact that, they visited some of the countries in the region. What emerged was very clear that, as far as the Judiciary is concerned, and these are constitutional office holders, in most parts of the world, even in the UK and so on, they are remunerated at a level higher than those employed in the Civil Service, just as a point of principle. But I am going to submit that these ones are not even higher than those employed in the Civil Service. But, really, that should be the principle and, really, constitutional office holders should be getting more than what is proposed. So, they carried out that undertaking. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Board recommended and the Minister for Public Service took those recommendations to the Cabinet Committee, which, again, looked at them and approved them. They were then taken to the Cabinet, which approved them. I am coming to what the Cabinet approved shortly. The point I want to make here is that, the salaries for constitutional office holders have not been reviewed since 2001. Of course, common sense prevails that since 2001, inflation, the value of the shilling and everything else, including the cost of living, has gone up. But that applies to everybody. But the fact is that the salaries have not been reviewed since 2001! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what has happened since 2001? What has happened is that, for example, the disciplined services salaries have been reviewed in 2003 and again in 2007. The salaries of the disciplined services have been reviewed twice while the salaries of constitutional office holders have not been reviewed since 2001! That makes an interesting comparison because you find that some of them are earning almost like professional people, which should not be the case!"
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