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Do away with redudant offices to cut down the wage bill

The motion filled by Budalang'i MP on the pay cut among the top earners is timely and the National assembly should embrace it to save the country from the high wage bill. If the president is sincere that he has the interest of Kenyans at heart, as it came out from his address on Sunday on the teachers strike, then he should woe MPs allied to Jubilee to use their infamous tyranny of numbers to pass the motion.

I also concur with Namwamba's suggestion on the reduction of representation in the National assembly. The beneficiaries of the affirmative action (women reps) should be done away with since it’s a wastage of taxpayer’s money as some of their roles are redundant with the roles of the lawmakers. The third gender rule should be implemented in public offices not in parliament. Another redundant office is that of the Ward Administrators, its roles have no difference with those of the Ward representatives.

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