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"content": "Today, we were supposed to interrogate the alleged abuse of human rights in the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) but we did not get any representation for some of the people that were supposed to appear in the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. Having said that, if you look at the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) law, you will find that the Commission is a professional body which, requires the various arms of Government; the Judiciary and Parliament to be represented. We have come from having a robust interview process to ensure that the interests of counties are represented. I hope and believe that we will have an individual who will do so. At the same time, there has been zeal by SRC in the past, hiding under their mandate to provide for opportunities to embarrass Members of Parliament (MPs). That is not their role. Whenever they reduce salaries, the first port of call is salaries for MPs. I beg to differ. If you properly analyze the various salaries of people in the Executive, you will realize that MPs are only used as scapegoats. Even if they were to reduce the salaries of MPs to zero, I can assure you that the wage bill will still be way over the Kshs685 billion that is the current situation."
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