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    "content": "indicator of the workload of Parliament. She should be given a copy. I would urge that our Clerk takes it to her office. After taking it to her office, we will also give her the kind of Bills we will pass. If she wants, we will tell her how many times we sit. This is not so that she can be our prefect, but rather just appraise her our work load, so that she is educated. This is because I have realized that after we put people in charge of commissions, they become bigger than those who employed them. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I am really surprised because when we asked Sarah Serem during her interview what she would do with salaries, she said that it was immoral and criminal to reduce anyone’s salary. I was actually perplexed that the lady has become so stubborn. She is now telling us that if you reduce the salary of a Member of Parliament, it is okay but she has increased hers threefold. She has increased her salary from Kshs300,000 to Kshs900,000 per month. This is something that she has not been told. She should justify the improvement of her salary from Kshs300,000 to Kshs900,000, and made Kenyans view us as greedy and uneducated people. I hear they say that parliamentarians are not educated. They are forgetting that it was actually a court of law which ruled that for an elective post like that of Member of Parliament, a degree qualification was unnecessary. I really wonder if they are more educated than all of us in this House. At least, majority of us are probably even more educated. So, they should respect us. We are calling upon the Commissioners, as we want to respect their independence, they should also respect the Members of Parliament. It is very sad that this country, for so many weeks, we can discuss the salaries of the Members of Parliament. It is a big shame and I would urge some tolerance from commissioners before we reduce their number from nine to three. I agree with Eng. Gumbo who made a very passionate statement this morning that we consider whether we need this commission to have nine Members. I am of the view that we must reduce the membership of all commissions to three and we make all of them part time. If you ask me, after Sarah has determined our remuneration and this will stand for about three years, what will she be doing in the office? That is why they have excess energy. They have nothing to do in offices.If you look at Mr. Nyachae, the guy wants to comment on everything and anything at any time because he has a lot of time. Really, what does Mr. Nyachae do at the moment? There are even no Bills to look at. What does he have to do? If you look at Schedule Six of the Constitution, the Bills that are remaining for this commission to give an input on are such insignificant Bills. I think we will deal with them when the right time comes. We will eventually deal with them to save the country unnecessary expenditure and not just to express our anger. I think you will agree with me that there is unnecessary expenditure."
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