Confessions that some Members of Parliament were handed Ksh10,000 bribes in toilets are pushing a parliamentary committee to an extreme corner of the probe.
Of all the legislators who have appeared before the Powers and Privileges committee chaired by Speaker Justin Muturi, only three have admitted having witnessed their colleagues receiving bribes.
Kiambu Woman Rep Gathoni Wa Muchomba, Lugari MP Ayub Savula and Kimilili's Didmus Barasa are the only lawmakers who have owned up the claims while the rest have denied the alleged corruption in parliament.
Wa Muchomba had told the House committee that a number of MPs had received money in the female lawmakers' washrooms at parliament.
When asked to name culprits, Wa Muchomnba held that she could not see them given they were inside the toilet cubicles and that she only heard them conversing on exchanging the alleged bribes.
It is these outrageous admissions that have forced the committee mull visiting the toilets in a bid to uncover the truth behind the reports painting the National Assembly as an estate of thriving graft.
While maintaining that he had never visited the female MPs' washrooms, Muturi stated that the Secretariat had asked the committee to consider the visit so as to understand the claims made by the Kiambu woman representative.
"I have been advised by members of the secretariat that it is now necessary that we pay a visit to the ladies' washrooms so that we can get the picture of how they look like. I have never been there, and most members are not understanding some of these admissions by Wa Muchomba," stated Muturi on Wednesday.
Wajir Women Rep Fatuma Gedi, who had been implicated in the bribery allegations earlier denied dishing out money to the lawmakers to influence the rejection of the report on illegal sugar imports.
The committee is also reconsidering to recall Ms Gedi to make further clarifications on some more details emerging from those summoned on the bribery allegations.
