<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Cambria, sans-serif; "><div>It's also ever so slightly different as UK's GDP is 2.4 trillion USD and Kenya's is 33.2billion USD, yet Kenyan MPs are paid better than almost any other MP in the world, including the UK.</div><div><br></div><div>N.</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Kivuva <<a href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:32:58 +0300<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Nicholas Dear <<a href="mailto:ndear@sundayafternoon.me.uk">ndear@sundayafternoon.me.uk</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [kictanet] MPs Salary Debate not Unique to Kenya<br></div><div><br></div>I think this sounds different because the salary is not being fixed to benefit a sitting parliament.<br clear="all"><div>______________________<br>Mwendwa Kivuva<br><a href="http://twitter.com/lordmwesh" target="_blank">twitter.com/lordmwesh</a><br><div>google ID | Skype ID: lordmwesh</div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 July 2013 16:36, James Kulubi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkulubi@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">jkulubi@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><div><span style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; ">It may interest list members to know that debate on hikes to British MPs salary is a replay of what happened in Kenya recently with one major difference - the hike in UK will take place in 2015. Even with the deferment, it appears that the ordinary Briton is not amused. See link below.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16.363636016845703px;background-color:transparent"><a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1114374/mps-pay-watchdog-backs-hike-to-74000" style="font-family:'bookman old style','new york',times,serif" target="_blank">http://news.sky.com/story/1114374/mps-pay-watchdog-backs-hike-to-74000</a></div>
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