Where our MPs Went Wrong
They can be seen driving the latest four wheel drive models and basking at the coast over most weekends. They live in opulence and have voted themselves some of the highest salaries and lavish benefits. Yet according to recent reports our MPs are some of the laziest in the continent. They have passed only one bill and have over a dozen pending. The situation is so bad that speaker Francis Ole Kaparo was forced to intercede on behalf of the public and urge the legislators to pull up their socks. At one point he cancelled one of their famous retreats at the coast where they were heading to discuss the forthcoming procurement bill.
Kaparo told the MPs that bills were only to be discussed in parliament. The MPs remonstrated against Kaparo's conduct and threatened the speaker with a vote of no confidence. Public support for Kaparo may have saved the veritable speaker popular for his 'Order, Order' command in parliament.
To cut the story short, Kaparo was forced to let the coast retreat go ahead after the intervention of the Ministry of Finance which was organising the event. And the MPs trooped to the palm fringed beaches at the coast to enjoy some of the finest beer and nyama choma on offer at the hotel. That is what it seems. A weekend is hardly enough for the MPs to thoroughly discuss the intricate details of a bill that serious in nature.
Now after all that money was pumped to get them seriously interested in the bill, the MPs have confirmed our worst fears. That they can't just sit down and work. They failed to attend to serious business in parliament on the same procurement bill !!! Only 32 of them voted for the bill after their all expenses paid luxury trip!! How on earth does a house of more than 200 members allow such an important bill to be passed by only 32 MPs?
Our parliament needs to wake up as the public is watching them in the run up to 2007. The MPs wrongly believe that public spats on petty politics, usually exercised in front of hapless mourners at funerals in rural Kenya, are the reason why they were elected. The MPs are very well paid and they'd better justify that. The voters are watching. Come 2007, some of the laziest MPs Kenya has ever seen will be sent to the dustbins of history.
Kaparo told the MPs that bills were only to be discussed in parliament. The MPs remonstrated against Kaparo's conduct and threatened the speaker with a vote of no confidence. Public support for Kaparo may have saved the veritable speaker popular for his 'Order, Order' command in parliament.
To cut the story short, Kaparo was forced to let the coast retreat go ahead after the intervention of the Ministry of Finance which was organising the event. And the MPs trooped to the palm fringed beaches at the coast to enjoy some of the finest beer and nyama choma on offer at the hotel. That is what it seems. A weekend is hardly enough for the MPs to thoroughly discuss the intricate details of a bill that serious in nature.
Now after all that money was pumped to get them seriously interested in the bill, the MPs have confirmed our worst fears. That they can't just sit down and work. They failed to attend to serious business in parliament on the same procurement bill !!! Only 32 of them voted for the bill after their all expenses paid luxury trip!! How on earth does a house of more than 200 members allow such an important bill to be passed by only 32 MPs?
Our parliament needs to wake up as the public is watching them in the run up to 2007. The MPs wrongly believe that public spats on petty politics, usually exercised in front of hapless mourners at funerals in rural Kenya, are the reason why they were elected. The MPs are very well paid and they'd better justify that. The voters are watching. Come 2007, some of the laziest MPs Kenya has ever seen will be sent to the dustbins of history.
posted by Kelele Leo @ 1:25 AM
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