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    "id": 925070,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Yes, Hon. Speaker. This is a matter which all Kenyans need to be informed of. That is why the Question asked, gazetted or otherwise. We want a written response preferably, so that Kenyans can know the truth on the matter called wage bill and the targeted debate of only a section of the public service. Getting mere transport facilitation for a Member of Parliament is a problem and it is being debated for eternity. This Parliament approves people who leave here with over three cars. So, I am saying gazetted or otherwise because if you go to the Gazette notice, they never capture everything that the SRC has allowed public servants and State officers to get across the country. While the law requires that all decisions of the SRC should be gazetted, a lot is being paid outside there which Kenyans may not know, and are the matters building to our wage bill which are not gazetted. For instance, you have not seen a Gazette notice setting the pay for the Chief Administrative Secretaries, but we all see them in better terms than us. We want the Commission to come out using the benefit of the publicity of the institution of the representatives of the people here, to not just set out in detail what all categories of State officers and public servants are paid, so that we can provide a solution which is objective on this matter, but also to justify, so that when you say a nurse is earning this against a teacher, SRC must tell us what their justification is. When you say people in the commissions take Kshs40,000 and their chairs take Kshs50,000 per sitting, they must justify why the Kshs5,000 given to the Members of Parliament becomes an issue, so that the nation can know and objectively at the end, helping the country as their representatives, we can provide a solution about this thing we call wage bill and other issues as we help SRC to save on wastage and rationalise and harmonise pay which is their core objective. I thank you, Hon. Speaker and request for a written response."
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