7/28/2019 #OccupyParliamentReloaded Press Release

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Our Blood, Sweat and Tears

Last weekend, it was reported that the Salaries and Remuneration

Commission was being arm-twisted into reviewing MPs salaries upwards,even after President Uhuru Kenyatta promised Kenyans such a review was

neither feasible nor sustainable.

If SRC concedes to the demands, a dangerous precedent would set by theKenyatta administration: that political expediency is guaranteed to prevail,

no matter how unpopular some decisions can be.

What would be even more disturbing is the cost of MPs or moreappropriately, MPigs heavy wage bill on our struggling economy. Thecountry is heavily strained by an expanding domestic budget, with the

creation of county governments, as well as pressing social needs. Some ofthose may have to be shelved to accommodate MPigs greed.

Yet, political concessions, negotiated by politicians without the peoples

participation, do not take away their sovereign will to envision a different

future for their country. Which is why we are turning our attention to a nobleconcept could serve MPigs well: piggy banks.

This might sound childish, for piggy banks are associated with children. Butour political leaders need to go back to the basics and reorient themselves

with the fundamentals of saving. For, no matter how much MPigs are paid, itshall never be enough to satisfy their spendthrift lifestyles.

While MPigs tactics of threatening to disband public bodies, or even

legislating ruinous laws, might be effective in securing a larger pie forthemselves, the issues of the day remain unchanged.

These are youth unemployment, now estimated at 10 million. The other

issue is the growing poverty among Kenyans. Many more live on thethreshold of poverty and destitution. Yet through their moil and toil, theyprovide the taxes that feed MPigs whims.

We dedicate our campaign this afternoon to reminding Kenyans of ourcollective blood, sweat and tears that we shed every day to feed politiciansendless whims, and condemn their greed as it is bleeding the country dry.