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    "content": "serious siege! There is an onslaught being mounted by the civil society and by the Commissioners who are idle; by the media who have demonized us and taken away our integrity. They want to weaken this House so that it cannot perform its oversight function. It is the same way they have weakened the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and made sure that it cannot perform its work well. Hon. Speaker, Sir, if you look at what has been happening recently, we are being bashed left, right and centre by everybody that we are seeking increment of our salaries. You know and everybody reasonable knows that we are not seeking an increase in our salaries. We are only saying that let us maintain our salaries at the level that was obtaining in the last Parliament until the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) brings a legal order to change our salaries and, in fact, not to change it adversely against us. This is because the Constitution forbids that. Now, Article 160 of the Constitution states clearly that you cannot adjust the salary of a State officer to his or her disadvantage. Hon. Speaker, Sir, the commissions we have set are idle. Remember that a member of the SRC earns the same salary they have recommended for you to earn and yet they only perform their job every three years for one month or two months. I will urge the Parliamentary Service Commission to continue paying Members of Parliament at the previous level that was used to pay the Tenth Parliament. This is because the order given by that gazettment is illegal. It is unlawful. It contravenes and transgresses more than 15 statutes of this country. The SRC does not have the power to repeal or amend enactments that have been made in this House. Take the example of the Act setting up the SRC, Section 11 says clearly that they will review the salaries and recommend before they can be implemented."
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