What do we pay our MPs for?

The revelation that an MP’s total monthly earnings exceed Sh1 million adds a new sting to the saga of their untaxed allowances, says Martin Tairo Maseghe, adding: “Why should they receive allowances for attending meetings of parliamentary committees? Isn’t that what we have sent them to Parliament to do and pay them so well for?”


Published in the Daily Nation of 29th January, 2009.