Kiambu Woman Representative Gathoni wa Muchomba and Naivasha MP Jayne Kihara recounted how MPs received bribes to kill the sugar probe report in toilets.
The two legislators noted that Members of the National Assembly were approached to reject the sugar report of the joint committee on Trade and Agriculture in Parliament.
Wa Muchomba alleged that some MPs were bribed in Parliament’s toilets while Kihara professed that some of her colleagues received the cash before the report was tabled.
Speaking in Thika, the woman rep stated: “They were telling us that money is not our mother’s [sic] and that we were being too arrogant. They went to the toilets and corridors to dish out money.”
On her part, Kihara recounted how one lawmaker from Nakuru County approached and informed her that the Jubilee party had decided to 'kill' the report.
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Kihara remarked: "The MP told me that he had been sent by Majority Leader Aden Duale to make sure that MPs from Nakuru county did not pass the motion and again said even Minority leader John Mbadi had instructed his colleagues to do the same."
Kieni MP Kanini Kega who co-chaired the joint committee that authored the report blamed Speaker Justin Muturi, Duale and Mbadi for the rejection.
He insisted that Muturi denied members of his committee an opportunity to contribute during the stormy debate.
“All the 26 members of my committee appended their signatures to the document but it is unfortunate that when we came to the House, the speaker did not give an opportunity to any of them to contribute. I read malice in this because all those people who were given the opportunity to speak were against it. It was done in a well-choreographed manner,” Kanini remarked.
Mbadi, however, exonerated himself from the claims stating that he did not whip his members to reject the report.
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“If these members who talk in funerals are serious and think it was a mistake for Parliament to reject the report, they should invoke Standing Order 49, requesting the speaker to allow them to reintroduce the report again and convince the House on its merit. The House can either pass or reject it,” Mbadi suggested.
