Hon House Chairperson and hon colleagues, if one were to ask members of this House who know the FFC or have ever benefitted from the FFC in the execution of their duties and responsibilities in this Parliament, very few hands would go up. Those who have received assistance from the FFC would tell you that it has been nothing but short, to say the very least.
We want to put the cart before the horse and remunerate the Commissioners, the board, the chair and so on without first and foremost, giving capacity to the FFC to do its work and duties. If this was a bonus, one would want to ask the question: What are we benchmarking these increases against? We would find that, well, it is just a nicety. That's the one aspect.
Last week the Minister of Finance stood on this podium and spoke about belt-tightening; people not receiving increases and so on including Members of Parliament ...
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... kodwa manje sishaya u-180, omunye nje umjika-joe ...