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Speaker approves Namwamba’s motion on pay cut for top earners in public sector

ODM Secretary General Ababu Namwamba (right) addresses the Press yesterday.

An ambitious motion seeking to reduce by half salaries of top public officers to tame the soaring wage bill has been filed in Parliament.

If the motion by Budalang'i MP Ababu Namwamba is passed by the National Assembly, the President, deputy president, Cabinet secretaries, principal secretaries, MPs, senators, governors and their deputies, the two speakers of Parliament and the clerks of the Houses will immediately have their basic salaries slashed by 50 per cent.

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