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    "content": "Hon. Members, I appreciate that the silent fear of every politician is ending their career in politics, broke and destitute. This fear may have its foundations in our history when our Members and Ministers would retire or lose their elective seats and thereafter wallow in poverty. As a country, we must agree we have come a long way in addressing these fears. However, since then, we must always remember that the calling of leadership is to serve and not to become rich through serving. As politicians, we must accept that our ever increasing salaries and allowances have contributed to the unsustainable demands by other cadres within the public sector to increase their own remuneration at the expense of our people and the country’s development agenda. It is, therefore, upon us, as leaders, to restore the principle of servant leadership by respecting the will of the people and supporting the work of the SRC. The SRC recommendations help to contain the overall wage bill. They will allow the SRC the leeway to review the salaries of all public servants at national and county levels with a view to improving the terms of those in the lowest cadres. These recommendations will allow us to pay more attention to our medical professionals, teachers, policemen, prisons officers, military and many others who also need to receive adequate compensation for the services that they render. Most importantly, by so doing, we shall all be respecting the wishes of our own employers, the"
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