Posted on 05/14/2013 7:00:30 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
NAIROBI — Kenyan demonstrators released two dozen piglets at the gates of parliament and poured blood on the pavement Tuesday to protest demands by newly elected lawmakers for a wage hike.
Police, who fired tear gas to disperse the protestors and beat others with truncheons, scurried after the pigs as they scampered through the grassy area surrounding the parliament.
"We will not allow members of parliament to increase their salaries at will," shouted one of the protest organisers Okiya Omtatah.
"They are greedy just like the pigs we have brought here," Omtata added.
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Kenyan lawmakers are already some of the best paid on the continent, although their tax-free monthly salary of some $13,000 (10,000 euro) in the previous parliament has been cut to around $7,000.
The wages were cut after recommendations by the salaries commission, the body MPs now wish to close.
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Finally! Something politically appealing coming out of Kenya!
They stole the idea from Mark Sanford.
WOW! This is made for America! Set ‘em loose on Pennsylvania Avenue and have name tags on each one for Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, and company.
Do it now, while the MSM press just might at last understand why the populace is not happy with Hussein’s administration.
Times are tough when a lawmaker in Kenya has to scrape by on a meager $84,000 a year tax free. Of course when you’ve been making $156,000 a year it must feel like a real pinch.
Well, they were going to build a big tourist attraction in honor of their first native son to become President of USA. Maybe if they had been permitted to build it, they’d have made enough money to cover their payroll better.
I think $84000.00 a year tax free should be plenty for them, and for our public officials too. Without free meals, free cars, free vacations, free loans that don’t have to be repaid, free concubines, etc.
But maybe that’s just because I feel grumpy tonight.
Smile smile smile
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