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"content": "we have today. W are here today, and a commission wants to punish the Members of this House for being a large House; this is completely unacceptable. Hon. Speaker, Sir, this is the beginning of a very dangerous trend. It is the beginning of a trend of reduction of salaries; I am speaking to all our brothers and sisters out there, including the media. Even as they criminalise this House, they must know that this is the beginning of a very dangerous trend. Tomorrow they will leave their offices, and when they come back in the morning they will be told that yesterday they were earning Kshs55,000 and today they are going to earn Kshs20,000. There will be nowhere you will take such a person because even MPs salaries were reduced. We must watch out for this trend; we, as the people who are entrusted with the protection of the Constitution, we will not keep quiet as this trend takes root in this country. Hon. Speaker, Sir, somebody once said: âWhen they came for the Jews I kept quiet because I was not a Jew ; when they came for the Gentiles, I kept quiet because I was not a Gentile and when they came for me there was nobody to speak for me because everybody had been taken.â We will not keep quiet as this trend takes root. Hon. Speaker, Sir, what I will say finally on this subject is that we have been told of a soaring wage bill in this country; it is soaring, indeed, but no single institution can be humiliated and blamed for a soaring wage bill. That is a violation of human rights. This must be approached holistically, so that we see how best to deal with this issue. For one single institution of this nation to be crucified for this is utterly unfair. I support, support and support, hon. Speaker, Sir."
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