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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:12:28 -0800 [11/14/2008 08:12:28 AM CST]
From: kilimo Kapcharoi
Subject: RE: KENYAN MP SALARIES IS HIGHER THAN US SENATORS: SIGN A PETITIO N TO REDUCE IT
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I’ve been following this debate and agree with wanabidii that it’s time our MPs were put to task to justify the huge salaries they award themselves year in yera out while the rest of the population, their voters and employers, cannot afford a meal a day due to economic hardships. It’s a shame that leaders elected on a platform of reform and economic revival – creation of jobs, revival of vital sectors of the economy, constitutional reform, redress of historical injustices, et al – can continue to award themselves extravant salaries and therby overburden wananchi with heavier taxes. The fact that they earn more than MPs in developed and well-managed economies must surely irk the hardworking, underpaid and over-taxed Kenyans. That MPs in more democratic, more advanced ecnomies, who work longer and better for their electors, earn less than our selfish, lazy, corrupt, and ungrateful politicians is enough for Kenyans to demonstrate that they are fed up with a political system that keeps 99.9% of the population poor while 0.1 % of the already affluent are kept rich majority poor. This is enough reason to justify wanachi’s frustration with theri leadership.
The call for mass action is therfore justified in the circumstances and Kenyans must continue putting pressure on the greedy MPs until they see sense.
Those reformist politicians, MPs, who have been silenced by the fat paychecks must be ashmed of themselves. Those who promised to champion the causes of the common wo/man but now find themselves in compromised circumstances will, in five years time, if not now be tasked to account for their inability or unwillingness to fulfil their promises.
I am in it!
Mathias.
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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:28:46 +0000 [12:28:46 PM CST]
From: mathias aguta
Subject: RE: KENYAN MPs’ SALARIES