UDA Nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba has maintained that she did not join politics for the salary.
Speaking on a local radio station, Senator Orwoba revealed that her past job paid her three times more than what she is earning as a Senator now.
A senator’s basic salary currently stands at KSh 710,000 monthly.
Senator Orwoba disclosed this upon being asked why her predecessors never raised the issue she has been raising in the house.
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“It’s a very difficult path to take with serious consequences including losing your seat,” she said on Spice FM.
“I joined politics because I saw the power of being in a position where you can change things with a strike of your pen.”
“There are people who came to politics because there is a good salary or they have never travelled the world.”
“Are you going to speak up so that they tell you they are not going to send you to the United Nations General Assembly?”
Orwoba :people think I’m arrogant
Acknowledging that there are people who think of her as aggressive and arrogant she said:
“I want to tell people one thing, I had a salary bigger than Senate three times over before I came into politics.”
“I dropped it because I felt like I was not changing anything there.”
“I came back to change things, I didn’t come here for the salary because then I would have stayed there.
I have travelled the world over: Orwoba
Senator Orwoba also divulged that it is hard to silence her as incentives such as travelling don’t appeal to her.
“If it is about travelling, I have travelled the world over.”
“Today if you gave me a trip to go to Sweden, I’d say no thank you because I have lived in that country and I wouldn’t want to go back there.”
In a previous interview with TV47 Digital’s Gachambi Nderitu, Senator Orwoba said she headed the Meta Data Center in Sweden before joining politics.
