Kandara MP Alice Wahome has defended her colleagues' foreign trips from an onslaught by the public.
Wahome denied allegations that the trips were for leisure and had led to wastage of public resources.
Citizen TV shared Live interview with Wahome in their official Twitter handle on Tuesday morning.
According to the MP, members who go on the aforementioned trips annually are representatives of various parliamentary committees, who travel to developed countries, using budgeted funds to learn new best practices of conducting house businesses.
Furthermore, she argued that the various house committees had travel expenditure items in their budgets.
"You cannot generally argue that this is wastage. These people are drawn from various committees and each committee has a budget for travel and that travel is not entertainment, that Kenyans must understand," asserted Wahome.
Wahome exonerated the lawmakers from accusations of theft of public funds while blaming the loss on graft as well as fully-funded, yet unimplemented projects across the country.
"Look at the wastage in terms of unimplemented projects and the thefts, Parliament has no money to steal; there is no money that gets lost through parliament,” observed the legislator.
However, the legislator asserted that the country should reduce the allocation of funds to recurring expenditure and start diverting more to development projects that would benefit Kenyans.
"We would want to see more money being channeled into development instead of administrative duties and recurrent expenditure," she said.
She opined that the country had to look for a way of reducing the number of civil servants in order to reduce the unsustainable wage bill.