WILL THE HIGH PRIESTS OF GREED SUPPORT NAMWAMBA’S MOTION?

Pigs lick blood outside parliament in Kenya (14th May 2013)

It is very crystal clear like the biblical ‘Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin’… it is audible to the deaf and visible to the blind, that our greedy MPs popularly known as “MPIGS” will pooh-pooh the ambitious motion filed by Budalangi MP Hon Ababu Namwamba, seeking to reduce salaries of public officers. We need to feed ourselves before feeding the nation has been the modus operendi of our Members of parliament and other public officers….Leaders in name only. This gap must be closed. I dare them to prove to the people that they are not as avaricious as we have always known them to be by supporting the bill.

If the motion by Budalangi MP Ababu Namwamba is passed by the national assembly, the President, Deputy President, Cabinet secretaries, principal secretaries, MPs, senators, governors and their deputies, the two speakers of Parliament and the clerks of the houses will immediately have their basic salaries slashed by 50%.

The motion also pursues other drastic austerity measures including reduction of the number of counties and constituencies to cut down on the bloated figure of elected representatives drawing hefty perks. Indeed the motion is good and should be supported by every compos mentis or otherwise reasonable Homo sapiens. Somebody needs to explain to jubilee folks and any other legislator who may want to oppose the motion why this motion is of national interest, why they should rise above party parochialism and support it. I beseech the lawmakers not joke with the future of Kenya. The soaring wage bill must be tamed. I support the motion.