Reports indicating that Members of Parliament were bribed to trash a joint House Committee report on the importation of contraband and harmful sugar are true, a Jubilee Party legislator has confirmed.
Kiambu Women Representative Gathoni Wa Muchomba said she was present at Parliament buildings when she saw the honourable lawmakers receive money in toilets moments before the report was tabled in the House on Thursday last week.
"It is not propaganda. The MPs received the money in toilets in Parliament. I was in Parliament when the money was being dished out and I saw where the MPs were collecting it from. And I am saying this because of the energies I saw, the movements I saw and the talking I heard," Wa Muchomba said.
The first-time MP, however, did not disclose who was distributing the money or how much was being given.Speaking to the press on Tuesday, Wa Muchomba claimed she did not accept the bribe, adding that her colleagues who refused to take the money were being ridiculed and insulted.
"They were telling us that the money is not our mothers' and that we were being too arrogant," added the former radio presenter.
Her remarks come at a time Parliamentary Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Committee Chairman Kanini Kega has insisted that National Assembly Majority leader Aden Duale and his Minority counterpart John Mbadi must be put to task for allegedly being behind the rejection of the highly publicised report."On that day, the leader of the majority and leader of minority closed ranks which is rare and I said to myself there must have been a convergence of other issues. That is why I want them investigated," Kega said on Tuesday night during an interview with Citizen TV.A list being circulated on social media claim that at least 150 MPs received between Sh10,000 and Sh30,000 to shoot down the report.