IN SUMMARY
Constitution audit team led by Auditor-General Edward Ouko said the allowances earned by MPs and other State officers mostly exceed the basic pay and should be capped at 40 per cent to ease pressure on the wage bill.
This would see MP's total monthly take-home drop below Sh1 million from the current over Sh1.5 million.
The team also said that Kenya needs 290 MPs and not 416 in line with the global citizen’s representation quotas.


Mr Ouko’s team said that in the year ending June 2015, the country was spending on average Sh55 million per member, adding that the cost of running Kenya’s Parliament is nearly four times the global average.

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Mpigs to debate in parliament on how to reduce their remunerations and numbers?. I think i am drunk!

if only there was even a tiny tiny return from these investments in salaries

instead what do we get?

anyway maybe in 20-30 years the electorate will stop being bewitched

The auditor General has done some great work, but will the politicians listen?

In regard to politicians 'working' for us, Kenyans are over-represented over and above global quotas!
As for Doctors, Police etc Kenya is well under the global quotas.

In the meantime Doctors, Police and other such Govt employees are paid less than 5% of what an MP earns!

Peculiar Country!

I also don't understand the concept of sitting allowances as its so widely practiced in the public sector.

My work involves many meetings including some outside the office, meeting many people etc. I don't ask my employer to pay me a sitting allowance, all those meetings are part of my JD.

Our non exec board members however do get a sitting allownace coz they are not on salary but their eetings are restricted to 4 per year.

Why then is it that in the public sector, everybody is paid a sitting allowance for manner of things that they are expected to do as part of their JD and even for mundane things like to visit the toilet.

Further, Does the president get a sitting allowance when he is meeting other presidents or attending some international function. Why is it then that an MP gets a sitting allowance for attending a committee meeting which is part and parcel of their JD.

We need to really figure out a way to force change in our public institutions.

PUNDA AMECHOKA

Why are these elected leaders getting sitting allowances

Secondly, they will not call it sitting allowance but everyone in public sector is always getting one form of allowance or another starting with the drivers all the way to the top of whichever organization they are in.

Those people are either mpigs or aspiring mpigs.

My only issue with MuKihanya's suggestion is that it disadvantages populous counties like Nairobi, Kiambu,Kakamega..

Each county will have an equal share of votes. Very undemocratic when crucial decisions are made by parliament

This can be mitigated by allocating votes per county. So Nairobi would have 17 votes while Lamu just 2

Problem solved. Make it a referendum issue for August 2017 elections. Implement August 2022 elections.