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Legislators truly deserve pay rise

We have all been so pre-occupied with the impending teachers’ strike over an outstanding 300 per cent pay hike that we forgot a bigger travesty happening right beneath our noses. Our MPs are starving.

True, we have just moved them to a new chamber, which was refurbished at the cost of only Sh1 billion. Indeed we gave them brand new seats that we got on the cheap at only Sh200,000 because they were cleverly manufactured by prison labour, which is largely free.

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