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Another thing is about our district revenue. Actually our revenues are being taken to the Local Government and we are left
without developing our districts. Why should we collect our revenues and then take to the local government, and it is
distributed unfairly? We should be left to run our own revenue. In any case, we can just get a smaller portion, and in that case
I would be willing to ask the Constitution, to allow the district revenue to be allowed to spend 80% of their revenue and may be
then 20% can go to the central government. This is because we feel it is not well distributed when it goes to the central
governmnet, and we are left with bad roads, we are not well paid, the coffee farmers are not paid and so on. I did not have
much, thank you very much.
Com. Wambua: Asanti sana Bwana Kamau. Tinamuita James Mwangi.
James Mwangi: Majina yangu kamili ni James Mwangi, and I have prepared something, a memorandum, but because of the
shortage of time. I will to go through whatever I have written and finally I will give it to the secretariat committee.
Mine, concerns the rights of employees and professional equality in Kenya; especially in private sectors. I think those people
maybe who did literature when they were school, there was a book called Animal Farm. Whoever wrote the book entitled
Animal Farm, I think he or she was very right, because she claimed that although all animals are equal, some animals are more
equal than others. My argument as I said is based on professionalism, equality and rights of employees in the private sector.
The quality of an employee, to a large extent, should be gauged by both academic and professional qualifications. Because that
is why we have primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and even universities. All this schools, colleges, and universities
admits, trains and offers students respective certificates, depending on students performance. It is because of this factor that
you find that two graduate teachers earn the same amount of money, irrespective of where one is posted to teach by the
ministry. Does this apply when it comes to private sectors? Does the government make any effort to try and investigate, the
plight of all employees in private sectors? Do people with the same qualifications, working in the same organization and who
have worked for the same period of time, earn the same amount of money in that specific sector, or private sector or
company.? Do these private sectors have good salaries structures, good increament polisies, equal and fair fringe benefits?
The answer is a very big no.
I think the government has only the criteria to make sure that, these employees are subjected to statutory deductions like
PAYE, NSSF, NHIF but the goverment does not have any institution or organisation in place, to investigate the problems
faced by these Kenyans. I would like to mention some of the problems faced by these employees, who are working in private
institutions, or organizations or companies. Some well established organizations do not have a well defined salary structure or
scale. They therefore exploit Africans, who are desparately looking for jobs, by paying them peanuts, since there is no salary
structure irrespective of their academic or professional qualifications. You would therefore find that, a trained P1 teacher
earning 45,000/= and it is only that I cannot prove it here, but we all have this data in evidence, while a BED. graduate teacher
earns 18,000/= in an academic institution. A CPA2 Accountant in the name of Bursar earning 20,000/=. I can even give a
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