NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan members of parliament, already among the world's best-paid lawmakers, voted on Tuesday to increase their salaries to more than 130 times the minimum wage in defiance of government plans to cut them as part of spending reforms.

President Uhuru Kenyatta, who won a closely fought March 4 election on an economic growth agenda, has implored lawmakers to accept pay cuts and help rein in public sector salaries to free up cash to create jobs.

Many Kenyans view members of parliament as symbols of a greedy political culture, seeking public office as an opportunity for personal gain at the expense of a country mired in poverty and where the unemployment rate stands at 40 percent.

Lawmakers on both sides of the house voted overwhelmingly for higher pay.

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So this is not peculiar to Nigerian legislators alone. Africa is in trouble.

African politicians will rather impoverish their citizenry than making sacrifice for the betterment of the people. Politics in Africa is seen as a means of amassing wealth.

That is why there are no coups anymore in Africa, if you pay 400 house members $10000 a month, they would do everything to protect that democracy.

Kenyan Mps are the most heavily paid and most corrupt legislators on the continent of Africa. Ex-president Mwai kibaki was often at loggerheads with them over the issue of pay, he refused to approve a pay rise for them last year.

that's a lie, Nigeria has the highest paid office holders in Africa, and among the world.