Is it really a pay cut or mediocrity in a bid to show Kenyans that an effort is being made to deal with the current wage bill
consuming more than 90% of our national annual budget? A lot is left to be
desired following the act of the president to have the executive get a 20% pay
cut that will save the tax payers about 43million in a financial year. It is
good money to be added to the budget lets not deny that but where is the sense of it when the deputy
president is using a jet that bleeds the tax payers 25million every 3 months?
This money to these people is almost like peanuts they make us feel like they
are topping up the budget for our good but the truth is that the common mwananchi is taxed mercilessly for
them to get those salaries.
First they need to check those allowances if they
are to move the wage bill for a moment. At a point in time when people are
dying in Turkana due to hunger no moral being in Kenya should be earning an
entertainment allowance especially in the public sector. All those vehicle s
they fuel each day for people to loiter with even in times when they are
attending to issues not related to their work should be stopped. Why in the
hell would MP's and senators earn sitting allowances and in the first place that
is their job, to sit and legislate!. However much the civil servants complain
that their salaries cannot be reduced, the problem is there and it needs to be
solved, but in more realistic ways.
