Homabay County MP Gladys Wanga. She says she has no time for Uhuru during Tuesday's Parliament opening. [standardmedia.co.ke]Even before the MPs were sworn into office last week, Homabay Woman Representative, rubbished the new salary structure for legislators.Gladys Wanga said that the new pay for legislators set by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) Chairperson Sarah Serem, was 'unacceptable'.She said the pay was meant to rob Parliament of its status, adding that the MPs will not accept anything less than the package legislators in the 11th Parliament were taking home."There is a mission to demean MPs and reduce them to beggars, as was the case in the 1990's when elected leaders would on Friday's go begging in government offices. We will not stand up and watch as this plan is systematically executed," said Wanga.But even before start working officially after she was sworn in, Wanga has vowed not to attend any National Assembly sittings which will officially be opened on Tuesday (today) by President Uhuru Kenyatta.Wanga argues that Kenyatta has no mandate to open Parliament till the October 17 presidential elections are conducted and 'the grains are separated from the chaff'."Uhuru is a limping President whom I can't waste time listening to. He is just there on a temporary basis before he can hand-over power. So what mandate does he have to open this 12th Parliament? As NASA MP, I am waiting for the right person to open and address us on the national agenda," Wanga told Citizen TV's Monday Special.She shot to fame in 2015 after she was caught on camera pouring water on the then Deputy Speaker Joyce Laboso and argues that Uhuru will only use his address to campaign for himself and advance the Jubilee agenda."The President will not be addressing the nation. He will be addressing the Jubilee MPs and his supporters on the floor of Parliament. NASA legislators and I will not accept Uhuru to lecture us on Jubilee agenda which failed badly in his first term," she added.Uhuru speaking in State House on Monday, however, told the NASA minority MPs to stay off the Parliament if they so wish, saying the occasion will go on as planned."They are not coming to Parliament to please me! They can even decide to boycott Parliament forever and we will still pass legislations which they will be subject to. The main losers will be their electorates who elected them because they will not have their issues articulated," he said.

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