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    "content": "of representation were huge. We reduced the number of former councillors and the whole idea was to remunerate them properly. Many people have been making a mistake by thinking that those people are councillors. These people are legislators. They are making laws and approving budgets unlike their predecessors. I think the mistake that Serem is making is to equate these county assembly members with councillors. Are we going to resolve the issue of salaries for elected leaders with this lady who is so arrogant? This lady has shown so much arrogance. I just want to tell her that we have seen many before like her and they are nowhere to be seen. Therefore, to bring in an organization like PriceWaterHouse Coopers to decide the salaries of county assembly representatives, what do they know about the functions and the area covered by them? What do they know about the functions of a Member of the National Assembly? What do they know about the role of the Senator? To say that a Senator, for example, should be paid mileage to his home and back to Nairobi, when will the Senator go to the various constituencies that he represents in this Senate? Therefore, I want to tell Madam Serem and those of her kind, particularly those who did a shameful thing by going to the gates of the National Assembly and pouring blood - God knows where they got that blood from - that I think we are taking this freedom too far. Those guys should have been clobbered, tear-gassed, arrested and taken to prison because they have defiled the institution of Parliament. Therefore, I want to appeal to the Executive, if the President is serious in what he told us when he was opening Parliament, that he is going to protect devolution, let him start by ensuring that Serem’s assertion that the county assembly members get Kshs61,000 is reversed. If possible he appoints another commission to properly decide on how much money the county assembly members should earn. With those few remarks, I support."
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