from: Gordon Teti
date: Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:49 PM
subject: Debate Over MPs’s Salaries

It was wrong to rollback MPs’s salaries. Salaries are never rolled back. This is just the law of economics. People, including Members of Parliament, apply for jobs and make budgets based on the salary offered. Therefore, to deal with difficult economic times, increment in salaries and employment are frozen for a period of time.

When you look at people like Charles Nyachae, the Chairman of the Constitution Implementation Commission (CIC) who has voiced his concerns on the demand by MPs to reverse the decision by Salaries and Remuneration Commission that slashed MPs’s salaries, the guy is earning over 2 million Kenya shillings; his pay is even more than that of the President of Kenya. Can Mr. Charles Nyachae justify why he is being paid such amount of money while at the same time he is demanding for the slashing of salaries offered to others? This is double standard, hypocrisy and selfish of him.

from: Charles Nyachae
date: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 4:40 PM
subject: Re: Debate Over MPs’s Salaries

Hi Gordon,

i note your comment and while i respect your views, it would have been greatly helpful if you got your facts right.

the incorrect facts about my terms aside ,(they are in the public domain) neither CIC nor myself have at any time expressed a view regarding what members of Parliament should or should not be paid. Our contribution to the discussion has been to state what is in The Constitution of Kenya 2010, namely that the responsibility to set the remuneration and benefits of all state officers is offered by the Constitution on SRC, see Art 230.

best wishes