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    "content": "every year. So, I am wondering how peculiar our salaries are, that the more they are deducted, the more they rise. I do not understand. If you look at the provisions that we put in the Constitution relating to judges, we said that you cannot reduce judge’s salary downwards, but for Members of Parliament we can do. In all fairness, if you want to reduce all salaries, and we think people are being paid high, let us reduce it across the board. It cannot be that it is only Members of Parliament whose salary is reduced, and yet they are the ones that serve the public. I want to encourage my brother, Mbadi, and others that even if we do not want to criminalise Members of Parliament, let us also not criminalise the civil society. There is also a tendency here that when we see anything from the civil society, we want to think it is wrong. Right now we are praising Okiya Omtatah. Though he is one individual and he is from the civil society, he has done a lot of good. A lot of good that has brought this country this far has been as a consequence of the civil society. So, even when we disagree with them, let us also acknowledge that they have done a lot of excellent work in this country. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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