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MPs’ perks cut to be taken up in first Cabinet meeting
The new Cabinet of Ministers, in its first meeting, will take up a proposal on reducing parliamentarians’ perks.
A three-member committee is to be appointed to make recommendations on reducing the MPs’ benefits, such as pensions, allowances, and duty-free vehicle concessions.
A senior official from the President’s Office said that it had been proposed that MPs should be given state vehicles instead of duty-free vehicle permits. The MPs would be required to return the vehicles on completion of their terms.
He said the vehicles recently returned by former ministers and officials would be redistributed among members of the next parliament.
Some of the committee’s recommendations would be implemented via circulars, but others would have to await Parliament’s approval, the official said.
He said the President’s Office also would not be maintaining a large vehicle fleet.
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