Jaji Warioba akifafanua jambo. Picha na Maktaba
Members of the
Judge Joseph Warioba-led Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) were
paid Sh250,000 each per day, The Citizen on Saturday can authoritatively
reveal.
But the amount rose to Sh330,000 each for every
day that the 30 commissioners travelled out of Dar es Salaam city, which
was considered their work station.
Judge Warioba declined to confirm or deny the
figures yesterday when the question was put to him by The Citizen on
Saturday. All he would say was that the information was confidential. He
did, however, confirm to our sister publication Mwananchi on Thursday
that they earned lower amounts than what the CA members are receiving.
The Citizen on Saturday independently established
that the commissioners who drafted the first and second draft
constitution earned Sh200,000 as responsibility allowance plus Sh50,000
for “leadership”.
The additional Sh80,000 paid during upcountry
trips was pegged at the current government rate for subsistence
allowance, according to impeccable sources that worked with the CRC
team. That would mean CA members now in Dodoma will pocket more in
allowances than CRC members.
Each of the 629 CA members President Jakaya
Kikwete named a week ago will earn Sh300,000 daily for the 70 to 90 days
within which they are expected to have finished fine-tuning the second
draft of the constitution.
The amount paid to CA members is split into Sh220,000 in responsibility allowance and Sh80,000 in subsistence allowance.
This suggests that, more often than not, a CA
member will earn Sh50,000 more in daily pay than what the former PM and
AU Secretary-General, Dr Salim Ahmed Salim, were paid when they worked
for the CRC.
The CA members’ allowances will amount to Sh9
million each per month against Sh7.5 million for the same period earned
by each member of the Warioba commission.
A demand by some CA members to have their
allowances more than doubled to Sh700,000 has plagued the opening days
of their meeting and attracted a public backlash. The unpopular demand
was ignited by Mr Richard Ndasa (Sumve-CCM) who said the cost of living
in Dodoma would overwhelm the 201 non-MP delegates.
Mr Ndasa accused the government of favouring the
CRC, claiming its members were paid more than Sh500,000 every day. What
they will be paid in Dodoma is equal to what CRC drivers were paid, he
added.
The push for a raise saw the CA interim chairman,
Mr Pandu Ameir Kificho, pick a committee to chart the way forward. The
team, which began meeting yesterday, comprises Mr William Lukuvi, Mr
Freeman Mbowe, Mr Paul Kimiti, Mr Mohamed Abood Mohamed, Ms Asha Bakari
Makame and Ms Jenista Mhagama.
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