By STANDARD REPORTER
Kenya: Parliament was Wednesday faulted for contravening the Constitution by quashing a gazette notice that set salaries for MPs at Sh530,000.
Nairobi lawyer Wilfred Mati said Wednesday the House did not have power to revoke the Kenya Gazette notice by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission and thus acted outside it constitutional mandate.
Mati, who is the chairman of the Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRCE), said: “Parliament went outside the law as it usurped the role of a different institution. The role exclusively belongs to the Judicial Commission.”
He was speaking at a Nairobi hotel where CHRCE, led by its executive director Rhoda-Angela Musyoka, held a roundtable breakfast meeting with its development partners.
Among those present were Civil Society Congress president Morris Odhiambo, Canadian International Co-operation Agency official Robert Simiyu, UNDP-Amkeni Wakenya programme officer and outgoing Creco CEO Kawive Wambua. The lawyer said the unconstitutional action by legislators was the epitome of the excesses Parliament would go to if it remained unchecked.
