At least 200 MPs in Kenyan Parliament neither filed a Bill or a Motion in the august House during the year 2015, an investigation conducted by The Standard has revealed.
Alphonce Shiundu, the newspaper’s Parliamentary editor found out that the names of 200 MPs are missing in the records of lawmakers who filed business in the House.
“This raises questions on whether it is prudent to have a House of 349 members where the majority are passengers riding on the backs of just 150 of their colleagues to do the thinking and the heavy-lifting,” Shiundu writes in the Sunday edition of December 20, 2015.
The Institute of Economic Affairs puts the cost that the Kenyan taxpayer coughs at KSh 21 million a year to keep an MP in the House.
According to the report, this amount takes care of the sitting allowance, salary, medical insurance, mileage reimbursement and domestic and foreign travel.
“If the taxpayer, who also happens to be the employer of the MPs, was to ask for returns on their investment, only 150 of them will have something to show that they spent public money prudently.”
The investigation further found that only 15 MPs in 2015 published bills with their names – which is and should be their core business.
The MPs are:
1. David Ochieng (Ugenya),
2. Peter Kaluma (Homa Bay Town),
3. Emmanuel Wangwe (Navakholo),
4. Chris Wamalwa (Kiminini),
5. Cecilia Ng’etich (Bomet),
6. Johnson Sakaja (nominated),
7. Irungu Kang’ata (Kiharu),
8. Agostinho Neto (Ndhiwa),
9. Priscilla Nyokabi (Nyeri),
10. Stephen Mule (Matungulu),
11. Nicholas Gumbo (Rarieda),
12. Adan Keynan (Eldas),
13. Boniface Otsiula (Bumula),
14. Jude Njomo (Kiambu) and
15. Silas Tiren (Moiben).
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