The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has failed to plug a major loophole that MPs may exploit to rake in thousands of shillings in allowances every month, minimising the intended impact of the recent pay cuts.
Though the commission has in a newly published gazette notice capped the number of committee sittings at 16 per week, parliamentary officials said the MPs are likely to find a way around it by establishing ad-hoc and sub-committees to increase their monthly allowances and recover what they will lose in the pay cuts.
