Corruption in the 12th Parliament is real, a Jubilee allied MP on Tuesday admitted.
Speaking on Radio Maisha during an interview, Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri frankly said the vice has eaten up Kenya’s legislature.
“There is corruption in Parliament which need serious action,” said the vocal legislator.
He decried that there are MPs working hard in committees but their efforts are watered down by corruption.
Revisiting the shooting down of a probe report on contraband sugar, the Bahati MP said it had nothing to do with corruption.
According to him, he said it was shot down by MPs because it did not address thorny issues as it had been expected.
“Kanini Kega’s bill [meaning report], did not flop because of corruption,” he stated.
Ngunjiri explained that MPs expected the joint parliamentary committee probing the importation of contraband sugar led by Kieni MP Kanini Kega to state if or not sugar traders who had been blacklisted by the 11th Parliament were involved in the saga or not.
Secondly, Ngunjiri said, the report did not indicate if the sugar already in the market is contaminated or not but, he believes it was not fit for human consumption.
“I believe it was contaminated. In Nakuru, about a month ago when the probe was still ongoing, sugar was disposed in raw sewage. Why was it disposed of yet the probe was not over? It is an indication something was wrong."
It is alleged that the MPs got between Sh5, 000 and Sh10,000 and that Wajir's Women Representative, Fatuma Gedi, facilitated the handout, claims that she has since denied.