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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Samoei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "William Samoei Ruto",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, salaries and renumeration in our Republic are very thorny issue, indeed. The issue of how much one is paid for the services they provide to the Republic of Kenya as public servants requires a lot of reflection. This is because I have had occasion to look at the salaries of other Presidents. Specifically, I have had the occasion to check how much the Prime Minister of Britain earns. He earns approximately Kshs2 million. He presides over a Budget that is 50 times our own. There are many public servants like ourselves and the President who earn peanuts. The discrepancies in salaries of public servants in our Republic is something that should cause all of us to do a lot of soul-searching before we make any approvals of any additional monies to be paid to certain categories of public servants. I am of the considered opinion that we have so many public servants who earn salaries that they do not deserve. A case in point is the Director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission who earns money that he cannot justify. There are millions of Kenyans who earn Kshs4,000 a month. It is shameful! This Parliament should lead the way in reconciling the salaries and wages for public servants. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this House should lead the way in rationalising the salaries of all public servants, so that they can make meaning. There is absolutely no justification for us to continue approving millions of shillings to be paid to certain categories of individuals, while millions of Kenyans, who are public servants just like the President and us, earn peanuts. An amount of Kshs4,000 cannot sustain a homestead. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is my considered opinion that those kinds of approvals should be referred to an independent commission, which can rationalise salaries of all public servants. We should not continue to justify the inequitable distribution---"
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