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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "confidence in these three Members. We have Wiper representative in the name of Hon. Ben Momanyi. As NASA coalition, we carry him along as a member of NASA who is nominated to this Commission. The ODM had two slots and we requested you to give us more time to agree on our two names. I want to report that we held a meeting this morning and agreed that ODM will propose and nominate Hon. Aisha Jumwa Katana as a representative, who is a lady, and then we would donate, in the spirit of the coalition, one slot which was an entitlement of ODM to Amani National Congress (ANC). Therefore, we have Sen. George Khaniri from the Senate as a member of the NASA coalition belonging to ANC. I want to talk to my colleagues in ODM who probably are not aware of this discussion that as the bigger brother in terms of numbers, and because of our magnanimity, we have decided that that one slot which was our entitlement we give one Sen. George Khaniri, who is the most experienced Member of Parliament in the Republic of Kenya. I think he is the longest-serving Member of Parliament; he is serving the sixth term. He served four terms in the National Assembly and is serving the second term now at the Senate. I think we cannot get a better representative than him. I also wanted to mention that even the proposal that came through my office where we were trying to have Hon. Ben Momanyi out, we were still having a Wiper member. So it is not that we did not want Wiper party to be represented. It was only the question of who from Wiper was to come in. Now it is Hon. Ben Momanyi. We are agreeable to it. We live with it as the NASA coalition. A lot has been said by my friend Hon. Duale, the Leader of the Majority Party. I wanted to also talk about it. It is also not correct to say that the previous Commission did not do much for this Parliament. Those of us who have followed the activities and deliberations since the introduction of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC)—because it is a new commission, a commission that the first Parliament that was affected by their decision was the 11th Parliament— we know the discussions that took place between the PSC and SRC. I know that a lot of decisions that were made by the SRC affected our service delivery, and many of us have been very unhappy. At the same time, the PSC has engaged quite well with SRC. So as Members we should not condemn the previous commission that they did not do much. I just want to add that something that surprises me, much as I appreciate and I know that we need to rein in on recurrent expenditure which includes salaries, and which should cut across the board, I just want to remind SRC, I see so many people congratulating and praising SRC that left that they did a good job, I do not think that commission understood its mandate. That commission needed to have realised that they were going to look at the salaries of the whole public sector. It was not just a question of public relations and targeting Parliament which is in the eyes of the public, because that is exactly what they did. If you look at some of the decisions they made, they were very good. The decisions they made could have helped this country cut on cost if it was applied across the board. But you cannot take away car grant of Members of Parliament but leave the Judiciary with it, leave the CSs, PSs, directors—and someone was telling me even chiefs are being given motorbikes with fuel allowance—and you are telling Members of Parliament that they are the only category of State officers who are not supposed to get car grant and mileage. Much as that makes a lot of sense, if you apply it selectively then it loses meaning. Therefore, I want to ask the PSC: This time engage effectively well with the new SRC which will come so that this condemnation of Members of Parliament should stop. You need to explain to the public what we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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