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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the things that I have a challenge with is the issue of salaries of the constitutional office holders. Having served as an officer of the Government, the hon. Attorney-General was actually my boss. I joined the office of the Attorney-General at a point when the salary was Kshs6,000. Within a few months of joining the judiciary I actually mobilized other State Counsels and sent a memo to the hon. Attorney-General and we got a 100 per cent salary increment. So, I left when my salary was Kshs12,000. It is not long ago. So, I am alive to the challenges that the officers face. I would actually be the first to really support an increment of salaries. However, I think the timing is utterly wrong. Kenyans are crying. That is why this Tenth Parliament has been deemed to be unpopular. Even though we have not added ourselves salaries, every Kenyan is asking us: “Why are you adding yourselves salaries?” We are not adding it, but we are perceived to be adding because our salaries are seen to be high. If you go to Kenyans and tell them that we want to give the hon. Attorney General a salary that goes up to Kshs1 million before we have counted the allowances which he has failed to table before us, the salaries might go to the tune of Kshs2 million or Kshs3 million. We have no way of knowing without those documents. Therefore, I would go back to the same issue that we have raised. Even though we raised it on points of order, the hon. Attorney-General did not indicate. He was very careful to say that there is nothing personal. But I noticed that when he was addressing the issue later, he was very passionate and kept using the word “our salaries” and “our increment and the record would bear witness. There is no word that is more personal than the word “our”. I would"
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