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    "content": "Salaries and Remuneration Commission. The SRC is a very important institution. The Senate has suffered in terms of its terms of service because of this SRC. When the last SRC was constituted, the Senate did not have a say as to the membership. So, there was no knowledge on our working conditions which would entitle us to a fair remuneration. We talked to Ms. Serem and she said the Members of the National Assembly told them that we do not have work and, in fact, we should be earning less than Members of the National Assembly. To her, the fact that we were put at par with Members of the National Assembly was in itself a favour to us. Now that we have this opportunity, we shall inform the Committee that we need a person or persons in SRC who can really appreciate the work of the county governments, the Senate and the provisions of devolution within the constitutional structure. We do need sympathetic ears here, but also fair remuneration for work done. We need a person in that commission to appreciate the work that the Senators do. For example, in Busia County, I have seven constituencies to look after. Yet I am supposed to earn the same salary as the Member of National Assembly of each of those constituencies. In fact, the people regard Senators as the fathers of the county and every problem comes to us to solve. We need to have a person in this commission who understands our challenges. My question is; as the report goes back, when they were developing the criteria, did they take into account whether these candidates fully understood and appreciated the work of governors, country governments and Senators? A candidate can have all those qualifications, but not fully understand what we do here. So, when the report goes back, please, consider that and we want a full report on this."
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