By Anchor Reporter
Members of County Assemblies allover the country have gained notoriety for all sorts of reasons.
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Instead, the notoriety has grown in leaps and bounds, making them a competotors with Members of Parliament who have earned themselves their derogatory monicker- Mpigs- underlining their legendary greed, selfishness and penchant for taking bribes and trampling on public good legislation.
When they are not absent from their respective assemblies at the national or county level, they are hopping from one office to another hawking their votes to line-up their pockets.
Others get busy in physical fights in their assemblies. At times, the assemblies are turned into theatres of the absurd where unprintable expletives are uttered in high decibels.
True,these assemblies become auction halls where wads of notes are dished out by the highest bidder in competition with their consciences to influence the fate of bills anf motions.
It is not a surprise that legislators will be sponsored by cartel leaders to ask questions or table motions to advance personal interest or entrench partisanship or even ridicule national interest.
This notoriety has no bounds. So this has put these legislators in permanent ridicule because citizens no longer trust that they are trully representing their interests in the assemblies. If ever one asked whose interests the legislators represent, public interest would never be the answer.
This is true on anything- whether pay perks, retirement benefits,taxation, health, trade, security, education- name it. The list in endless.
This is not to say that all legislators are terminally useless. No. But you will struggle if you will build a long list of who truly stand for what they were elected to do within these legislatures
So this week, Machakos MCAs took three days to donate blood, led by the Acting Clerk, Mr. Denis Mutui.
Members of staff also joined the to annual blood donation drive organized by the Rotary Club of Stoni Athi and Kenya Tissue Transplant Authority (KTTA).
This campaign continued through to Wednesday, February 21, 2024.
It is billed as en effort by MCAs to donate blood to save lives. Really? How many lives have legislators failed since the last elections?
And what thoughts will one have when told their blood donor is that greedy, selfish and notorious war- monger legislator?
Come to think of it...For legislators to donate blood, this could be the only good act the people can bank on.
