Gatundu South Member of Parliament Moses Kuria has dismissed a list of legislators who were allegedly bribed to reject a report on contraband sugar impounded by government officials.
The list, which has been doing rounds on social media, claim that 149 MPs received money to shoot down the report which recommended investigation of two Cabinet Secretaries over the importation of harmful sugar.
Four Kiambu lawmakers; Kimani Ichungw'a (Kikuyu), Anne Kibe (Gatundu North), Peter Mwathi (Limuru) and Kiambu town's Jude Njomo had been mentioned in the list published by a local weekly daily.
Kuria termed the report as 'fake' since some of the legislators quoted were absent at the National Assembly on Thursday last week when it was said money exchanged hands.
"To complete the theatre of the absurd, mainstream media allowed a gutter publication, The Weekly Citizen, to run amok with a fake list of those who were 'bribed', including Igembe North MP Maoka Maore who is recuperating in a hospital abroad," he said.
In a long Facebook post on Wednesday, Kuria said the sugar debate had put Parliament in a bad light, adding it has been a 'sad week to be an MP and a terrible week to be a Kenyan'.
"This sugar issue is epitomization of everything wrong with our leadership and the attendant lack of national ethos. The joint committees had made up their minds on who they wanted to indict the minute they were constituted. Any evidence to be gathered was simply to buttress their fixed minds," he posted.
Kuria added: "On the other hand those who opposed the report-including the House leadership-did so either because they were bribed to do so or they were representing a certain vested interest out there."