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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipkelion East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "remuneration, it is bound to have conflicts. However, if the Commission is competent enough, it is expected to work in good faith and ensure that they use all the skills available to ensure that the people who are affected by the various policies on remuneration are convinced somehow, in a good way, diplomatically. She was able to inform the Committee that she will be able to ensure that the SRC moves away from the negative perception which has been the order of the day, where it has been seen to be a commission fighting with various commissions, including the Parliamentary Service Commission and the Teachers Service Commission when it comes to the review of salaries. It is because of the failure of the Commission to display that they are diplomatic and they are able to convince stakeholders and use their authority in a good way to ensure that there is harmony between them and various stakeholders. She promised that she is going to be a voice of reason. I hope she will live to our expectations. More often, we have appointed public servants here on the Floor of the House but, as soon as they take office, they forget to serve the public in good faith, using good language. They have turned themselves to be modern-day dictators. There is a problem in the public sector. Many workers in this country are not motivated to work, because some of the people we appoint become dictators and they do not want to listen to anybody. I have to say this: I hope this honourable Member, who we really trust because she has been here and she has been showing a lot of independence in her mind, is going to discharge her duties independently and ensure that the Constitution is upheld at all the time by the Commission. We have been working with this Commission. In the 11th Parliament, SRC was working part time. Then there was an issue that, because it is a new Commission, they are required to be full time so that they can put in many policies which are required. Therefore, we brought in an amendment to the SRC Act to make them full time. In fact, we are not seeing any improvement. This Commission has been working against the Constitution. We have just been discussing the Supplementary Budget. I want to put it on record that when SRC came before us, they had already planned to do a workshop; a salaries review workshop without a budget. The Constitution is very clear that there is no procurement by anybody in this country without a budget. Budget is done by none other than the National Assembly. Therefore, we wonder why they did that. In fact, we want to invite the Auditor-General to investigate and do a special audit of SRC. They spent public money without the approval of this House. Currently, we have not passed the Appropriations Bill but, already, they have spent. They did a workshop. There was no allocation nor was there an approval. So, how did they find themselves doing the workshop without the approval of the National Assembly? What we are saying is that SRC has become a rogue Commission. We want to take this opportunity to ask Hon. Amina Abdalla, once she is finally approved by this House, and appointed by the President, she must go there with a voice of reason and turn that Commissionto become what it was intended for by the Constitution. The Commission was supposed to work in good faith and follow the Constitution to the letter. The Constitution does not allow anybody to break the law. Therefore, the civil servants who we appoint in this House should work and ensure that civil servants and other people who work under them are actually well taken care of and the Bill of Rights of those people are also considered."
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