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    "id": 814119,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "depicts their responsibilities did something laughable. The starting point of how they graded State officers in this country is laughable. It is laughable because you find Members of the National Assembly and Senators who oversee the Executive, vet and approve appointments and the Budget and who can even impeach the President are 43rd in the pecking order. The excuse they give is that there is no defined academic qualification for being a Member of Parliament. It is laughable that the only tool you use to grade employees in this country is academic qualifications. Who says that those of us in this House are not educated? We are! We have professors and other professionals. Look at the way SRC treated Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries vis-a-vis Members of Parliament. They have given them allowances, recommended higher mortgages, car loans and house allowances which an MP is not supposed to have. On top of that, they are given Government fuelled vehicles but, according to them, a Member of Parliament is not even supposed to get a grant. He is supposed to take a loan to buy a car to use in his constituency. A Principal Secretary, who is supposed to sit in the office and be an accounting officer for the money in the Ministry, is facilitated to travel in this country. However, a Member of Parliament, who represents people and goes to his or her constituency every weekend to collect their views and bring them here, is told that for him to get a vehicle to take him to his constituency, he has to take a loan. That is a Commission that has gone rogue. By the way, we have an opportunity to fix it but not to punish it. I do not want to use the word “revisit” but “fix” Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) to be responsive to the needs of this country."
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