The revised salaries were gazetted before the General Election, If Ms Wanga and her colleagues felt the pay was too little they should not have contested the elections.
If the MPs don't want to take the pay they can as well step down. I call upon MPs to accept the new salary proposed by SRC as it is still fairly high.
Instead of complaining they should now focus their efforts on serving Kenyans. This greed should stop. The taxpayer is already burdened.
- Nelson Opany, Nairobi
Some members of the National Assembly have hit out at SRC over the proposal to cut their pay and this will of course be their first agenda once they are sworn-in.
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The wage bill in Kenya is unsustainable and if MPs have their way this will seriously impact on pre-election promises of Jubilee government like free secondary education and other social programmes.
President Uhuru Kenyatta must read the riot act to legislators and stand his ground on the pay cut. I have always argued that whereas the economy is beholden to cartels, the biggest burden, is the 700,000 public servants. Unless the number is reduced, Kenya's growth will never hit the desirable mark of Vision 2030's 10 per cent.
The number of MPs should also be reduced from over 290 to 47, one for each county.
-Kariuki Muiri
The government must cap MPs salaries to avoid the tradition of every new Parliament arbitrarily raising their pay. The MPs already earn a lot in salaries and allowances which is driving the wage up.
The leaders have clearly shown that money is their motivation to vie for political seats and not serve mwananchi. The greed for money is to blame for rampant corruption in government where the mentality "its our time to eat" has led to loss of billions of shillings of taxpayers money.
Ken Okutoyi
