The Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) has revealed that Kenyan lawmakers to an international labour conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, have been neglecting their official responsibilities.
Instead, Cotu said, the legislators have been on a shopping spree and living large on taxpayers’ money while delegates from other states discussed serious labour matters.
Cotu claims that so far the lawmakers from the National Assembly and Senate Labour Committee are yet to attend a single session of the 106th session of the International Labour Conference even though they received huge allowances and other benefits in their stay in one of the world's most expensive cities.
Atwoli said the MPs were on a “spending extravaganza, shocking Geneva residents with their lavish spending and other escapades outside the official programme”.
“Cotu wishes to raise its concern against a section of both members of the National Assembly and the Senate, who reportedly received money... but did not attend a single session of the ongoing conference and instead have been spotted busy shopping on the streets of Geneva,” said the union in a statement.