Justina Wamae Calls Out MPs For Lamenting About Salary Delay

Roots Party Deputy presidential candidate in the 2022 polls Justina Wamae has denounced MPs outcry over delayed salaries as the parliamentarians are yet to receive their March salaries.

Wamae argued that the members of parliament had failed to fight for the betterment of the economy and now it has caught up with them.

She said that it is now their time to be stung by salary delay which the common mwananchi has been dealing with over the years adding that the MPs should prioritize growing the economy as it was the only way out of this mess of delayed salaries.

Her sentiments comes after Opiyo Wandayi, the National Assembly Minority leader, urged the Government and the opposition to focus on growing the economy which according to him has significantly deteriorated.

“Now they are talking because they are feeling the pinch. It is evident that the economy is not doing well. Government and opposition have a choice but to push bills that are focused on agrarian, industrial, and export revolutions. They have no choice but to grow the economy,” she said.

“For the first time since independence in 1963, the government of Kenya is unable to pay salaries to civil servants and members of parliament on time. Nearly all civil servants don’t know when or if they will ever be paid. The situation has been degenerating progressively since December last year,”he added.

The opposition led by Raila Odinga has since demanded that parliament undertake an inquiry on the country’s current financial and economic crisis as they want to know what the government did with the money it saved when it scrapped subsidies on basic goods.