A political activist has said the current Parliament as constituted has no will to effectively represent Kenyans and should thus be dissolved and a new Parliamentary election called.
Benson Matheka on Friday said the National Assembly is riddled with corruption, a vice that has clawed back Kenya's development for long, adding that it was worrying that people elected to fight graft on behalf of poor Kenyans are the same ones abating it.
He says he is personally ready to kick off an attempt alongside other like-minded Kenyans to have the current parliamentarians sent home so that Kenyans get the opportunity to elect other representatives.
"Going by the recent corruption allegations leveled against Parliament, it is apparent that the MPs we have today are not the right people to represent Kenyans," he said in an article he published on local Swahili newspaper Taifa Leo on Friday.
"The solution lies in the dissolution of Parliament and Kenyans return to elect new MPs," he added.
Parliament is presently on the spot over claims of corruption following this week's shooting down of the "mercury sugar" report.
There are allegations that MPs were bribed with as low as Sh10,000 to reject the report which had implicated senior government officials in the importation of sugar said to be laced with the deadly mercury metal.
MPs from sugar-growing regions of Western and Nyanza have already petitioned Parliament Speaker Justin Muturi to have the review of the report revived.