Salaries and Remuneration Commission Chairperson Sarah Serem. [Photo|nation.co.ke]
Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has not managed to satisfactorily discharge its constitutional mandate, an MP has said.
According to Kiminini legislator Chris Wamalwa, SRC has nothing to show since it came to existence in 2011.
"If you ask me, SRC, for the past six years, did not achieve anything worth writing home about. There is not a single tangible achievement the commission can be associated with during its tenure," he stated.
In an opinion piece published by The Standard on Friday, Wamalwa accused SRC chairperson Sarah Serem of failing to develop a remuneration policy and harmonise salaries and benefits for public servants as she has promised.
"If the commission had achieved what it promised to do, the incessant lecturers', doctors', and nurses' strikes we have had since the commissioners took office would not have occurred," he claimed.
Wamalwa further said SRC failed Kenyans by not bringing the ballooning wage bill to manageable levels as the commission boss had pledged when she took the oath of office.
"Ironically, it took an upward trajectory now standing at a whopping and unsustainable Sh627 billion," the MP added.
The term for current SRC commissioners is ending on December 15.