“Cut my salary by a further 15%” Moses Kuria talks sense in his open letter to SRC chairperson Sarah Serem

Moses Kuria has joined Mohamed Ali to support Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) bid to slash salaries for Members of Parliament.

Female lawmakers are leading the rebellion against SRC’s new proposed salary package that will see legislators’ salaries reduced from Kes 710,000 to Kes 621, 250 per month. Homa Bay Woman Representative Gladys Wanga, Kiambu Women Rep Gathoni Wa Muchomba and Mbita MP Millie Odhiambo have strongly opposed SRC new salary package.

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has joined his Nyali counterpart Mohamed Ali to support SRC bid to slash lawmakers’ salaries.  Kuria wrote an open later to SRC chairperson Sarah Serem instructing her to further reduce his salary by 15%.

Below is Kuria’s open letter to Sarah Serem:

Dear Sarah Serem. By this post I authorise you to effect the new salary level for myself. I would even suggest you look for legal mechanism for cutting my salary by a further 15%. I also commend you for revoking all my sitting allowances, otherwise if you didn’t do so I would have been tempted to also claim for squatting allowances or sleeping allowances. The Jubilee government will effect free day secondary education in January. I trust that with my reduced salary and no sitting allowances, we can now work towards subsidising fees in boarding schools or providing free meals for poor malnourished kids in primary schools. If we do that we will reduce the strain on our bursaries thus reducing my headache as Member of Parliament for Gatundu South. Finally Sarah I will be looking forward to working with you in the 12th parliament to reduce the public wage bill and reduce the many political offices in this country. We must work together towards a target if no more than 35% of our budget going to recurrent expenditure and 65% going towards capital expenditure that will spur development, long term growth and prosperity. It is tempting to ask you not to cut my salary or reduce my sitting allowances. But when I think of the kind of a country I will bequeath to my boys Brian and Dennis, I think twice. When I remember that there are families in this country who did not have something for dinner last night, not because they forgot to cook but because they did not have something to cook, I think twice. I hope that other non political public officers will take notice. Ukiona mwenzako kichwa ikinyolewa, chako tia maji. #MbeleIkoSawa #PunguzaMzigo #PundaAmechoka