SRC's new pay terms for MPs: Take it or leave it

Salaries and Remuneration Commission chairperson Lynne Mengich during a press briefing on the release of a gazette notice on the remuneration and benefits for state officers on July 28, 2022, in Nairobi. [Esther Jeruto, Standard]

The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has finally abolished car grants and sitting allowances for Members of Parliament, Senators and Members of County Assemblies.

This has been long in coming, not for lack of commitment on the part of SRC, but because of the legal obstacles that have been strewn on its path. The 11th and 12th parliaments, especially, were a thorn in the flesh of SRC.