Baringo Woman Representative Gladwell Cheruiyot has lifted the lid on the humiliation Members of Parliament are having to go through before raising their issues with Cabinet Secretaries.
Speaking on Wednesday, the lawmaker claimed that the current constitution, which dictates that CS's come from outside the parliament, has made it hard for MPs to get the concerns of their people to their (CSs) attention.
She claimed that on most occasions they are subjected to humiliation at the CS's offices when they attempt to access them, including having to wait for hours on the benches, while the CS are comfortably sitted inside.
According to Cheruiyot, its on most occasions on the orders of the ministers that they be kept waiting at the secretaries' offices.
"Kwa ofisi zingine utanda kama mbunge uketi for one hour. Wako kwa ofisi lakini hawana shughuli zenu (In some offices you will be kept waiting for one hour not because they are absent, but because they are not interested in meeting you)," she said.
The KANU MP made the remarks on Radio Maisha's Bunge La Maisha on Wednesday morning.
She termed the same as a consequence of the current system which allows the president to pick people from elsewhere, some of whom don't have what it takes to serve the people.
According to Cheruiyot, the fact that most of the ministers have never participated in elections makes them proud and arrogant, resulting in suffering on the side of MPs and Kenyans.
"Ni kwa sababu hawajakuwa bungeni na hawajui wabunge wanapitia nini (its because they have never been in parliament and don't know what parliamentarians are going through)," she added.