Kenya ? Lawmakers have approved end-of-term bonuses for themselves of more than $20,000 each, a move an anti-corruption campaigner said showed “contempt for public opinion” in a country where nearly half the population earns less than a dollar a day.

Late Thursday, lawmakers unanimously passed the package that will see Kenya’s 222 National Assembly members each get about $22,388 as an end-of-term bonus, said Paul Muite, an opposition legislator sympathetic to the government.

The lawmakers originally wanted $88,059 bonuses, but Finance Minister Amos Kimunya amended that following public protests. The bonuses will be paid when parliament is dissolved to pave way for elections in December, which will mark the end of the lawmakers’ five-year terms.

A final vote on the package is expected next week, but it is a formality because Thursday’s vote was the last opportunity to stop the bonuses.