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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I will table before the House a letter from the former Speaker of Parliament, forwarding Commissions document for the Commission to be guided by that. Section 26 of the SRC Act also provides as follows:- “The Commission my make regulations generally for the better carrying into effect of any provisions of the Act”. Section 26(2) stresses about the powers to make regulations. Again, these are very key words: “Shall”. As a lawyer, it makes a lot of sense to me. It should have been the other way round but we chose as Parliament to use the word “shall”. “Shall be exercised duly after drafts of the proposed regulations have been approved by the National Assembly”. Hon. Deputy Speaker, any regulation of whatever nature or name you can call it; you can call it regulation, you can use the Kenya Gazette or you can call it any name under the earth. But the point is this, you should, as a matter of procedure or as a matter of law be able to table those regulations or that gazette notice before this House so that the House will be able to approve after you are satisfied that those regulations fulfill the requirements of the Constitution of this country. So, these are the issues that I would like to raise and they are also observations of the Committee. Another very critical observation before I go to Part “C” of the report is that the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) in coming up with remuneration, the other benefits and the ranking of the said offices, it undertook an evaluation. They undertook a job evaluation by the PriceWaterHouseCoopers with the support of World Bank. So it is important for hon. Members to know that you were evaluated by a consultancy firm called PriceWaterHouseCoopers. During the said evaluation, the SRC sought input from Parliament as follows:- They invited the Clerk to join in the job evaluation. The SRC requested the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) to provide the organizational structure of Parliament, they requested for senior staff to be seconded to the process of evaluation but the PSC objected to the evaluation process as it was wrong and unconstitutional. It is important to note that this process was objected by Parliament in writing. I would like to read a letter by the former Speaker to the Commission when it was objecting to this unconstitutional process of job evaluation. This is a letter dated 22nd February, 2003 to Hon. Serem and the title is, “Proposed Remuneration Structure of State Officers in Kenya.” I would like to go to paragraph 4 in page 2. It is important for hon. Members to know this because it is going to inform our debate in this matter."
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