Activists protest MPs pay demands

Civil society groups today held demonstrations outside parliament building in Nairobi, to protest MP’s plan to increase their current salary.The group under the “occupy-parliament” slogan matched to parliament buildings in a bid to force MPs to sign a petition disowning the pay increment move. Members of the group carried live piglet and a severed pig’s head which were used by protestors to signify the greed of the members of parliament. The activists chanted “ni utumishi si biashara” ;one unidentified protester said the demands from the MPs as being “unrealistic and misplaced.” A placard...