Fat salaries and CDF make our MPs entitled, unimaginative

National Assembly during a Parliamentary session on October 6, 2022 [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Imagine you are applying for a job. You are aware of the pay and the job description. You actually perform some of the duties you imagine the job entails even before you are hired. You attend fundraisers and contribute handsomely. You seem to like it. You relish the hearty greetings and the warm hugs and embraces as you mingle freely. And you seem to do it well considering how the "ground"- your prospective employer- is receiving you; in rallies you hold to sell your agenda, they are ecstatic. They wildly cheer and clap for you. They speak well of you and your acts of charity and generosity. And your "down-to-earth" demeanour.

Now, you have been given the job and the first order of business has been your loud complaints about your "meagre" pay. They are calling everyone standing in their way ugly names and threatening to take them down. That should rank as the fastest rate of employee dissatisfaction anywhere in the world. What's more, the courts have ruled that the Constituency Development Fund- (by all nature, a slush fund) and the biggest motivator (for seeking the job) besides striking deals in corridors of power is illegal. But you want it back.